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In:Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
[Studies in Language Companion Series 191] 2017
► pp. 97–120

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Chapter 4
Lexical patterns of place in English and Norwegian

 | University of Oslo
Published online: 23 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.191.04has
Abstract
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of the English noun place and the corresponding Norwegian nouns plass and sted. The study involves two stages. First the patterns of cross-linguistic correspondences of the nouns are established by means of translational data from the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The correspondence patterns reveal both differences and commonalities between the words. Secondly, recurrent lexical bundles involving place, sted, and plass are investigated in order to discover their selectional preferences. The combined approach to the meanings and usage patterns of the words show the two Norwegian nouns to be almost in complementary distribution in many of their patterns. Place is broader in its meaning and shares senses and uses with both of the Norwegian nouns, although in certain contexts sted/plass correspond to different nouns (e.g. room or space), or to adverbs in -where. Certain idiomatic expressions are similar across the languages, but non-literal uses typically do not correspond to a spatial expression in the other language.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
  • 3.Material and method
  • 4. Place, plass and sted in dictionaries
  • 5.Corpus investigation
    • 5.1Frequencies of place, plass, and sted
    • 5.2Correspondence patterns
      • 5.2.1Mutual correspondence
      • 5.2.2Correspondence patterns of English place
      • 5.2.3Correspondences of Norwegian sted
      • 5.2.4Correspondences of Norwegian plass
      • 5.2.5Differences between sted and plass
    • 5.3Lexical bundles with place, sted, and plass
      • 5.3.1Overview of the bundles
      • 5.3.2Correspondences of selected lexical bundles with place, sted and plass
  • 6.Brief note on space and room
  • 7.Summary of findings and concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Corpora
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