In:Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 125] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 20 February 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.125.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.125.toc
Table of contents
Chapter 1.English in cross-register and cross-linguistic research: An overview1
Marlén Izquierdo
Sylvi Rørvik
Chapter 2.A cross-linguistic cross-register study of the verb phrase
in English and Norwegian face-to-face conversation and fictional dialogue24
in English and Norwegian face-to-face conversation and fictional dialogue24
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Chapter 3.Exploring verbal register markers in English and Spanish promotional texts and essays52
Noelia Ramón
Rosa Rabadán
Chapter 4.Aspectual catenatives in three English and Norwegian registers (fiction, non-fiction and academic prose)85
Hilde Hasselgård
Chapter 5.Verb omission in translations as evidence of grammaticalisation
in progress113
in progress113
Thomas Egan
Chapter 6.Extended attributes in English and German fiction
and non-fiction140
and non-fiction140
Jenny Ström Herold
Magnus Levin
Chapter 7.Noun-phrase complexity across languages
and academic registers165
and academic registers165
Sylvi Rørvik
Chapter 8.‘Hemming and hawing their way through’: An English-Spanish cross-linguistic study on register variation of the way-construction191
Belén Labrador
Chapter 9.Mirativity in exclamative constructions: A cross-linguistic and cross-register approach214
Faye Troughton
Chapter 10.English absolutely, French absolument and Dutch absoluut
in contrast and in translation237
in contrast and in translation237
Lobke Ghesquière
Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
Simon Copet
Index265
