[Corpora-List] translating french determiners into other languages

[Margot Colinet]

I'm a PhD student working in formal semantics on the meaning of some French
determiners, such as *'le moindre N'* which can be translated into English
as 'any N at all', 'the slightest N', 'a single N' when it occurs
in negative sentences (see (1)) and as 'any N' or 'each and every N' in
positive sentences (see (2)):

(1) Je suis totalement ignorante, je ne connais pas *la moindre* *ville* de
ce pays.
I'm totally ignorant, I don't know *a single town* of this country.

(2) Paul est impressionnant, il connaît *la moindre ville* de ce pays.
Paul is amazing, he knows* each and every town* of this country.

I'm interested in comparing French with other Romance languages such as
Italian and Spanish but also with English. I'm looking for a parallel
corpora tool (preferably online) which would find the most
frequent translations of the determiners from French to these three
languages, and provide a list of parallel sentences for each possible
translation.

Any reference to available tools would be highly appreciated. You can
answer directly to me, I will summarize your tips in a later post.

Thanks you for your help!

Margot Colinet
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
Paris Diderot-Paris 7
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