New Benjamins title: G ómez González et al.: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics

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Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics
Functional and cognitive perspectives

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie 
and Elsa M. González Álvarez
University of Santiago de Compostela / VU University Amsterdam / 
University of Santiago de Compostela

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 60

2008. xxi, 333 pp.

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This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in 
linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a 
broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages 
of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology 
are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I 
focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close 
link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the 
treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II 
turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential 
offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive 
linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and 
empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned 
with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire 
grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to 
language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural 
differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity.


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Table of contents

Contributors  viixi
Abbreviations used in glosses  xiii
Introduction
María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. 
González Álvarez xvxxi
Part I. Grammatical categories in contrast
Ways of impersonalizing: Pronominal vs verbal strategies
Anna Siewierska 326
Construing reference in context: Non-specific reference forms in 
Finnish and French discussion groups
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Marjut Johansson 2750
The contrast between pronoun position in European Portuguese and 
Castilian Spanish: An application of Functional Grammar
J. Lachlan Mackenzie 5175
Modals and typology: English and German in contrast
Raphael Salkie 7798
Part II. Contrastive linguistics and corpus studies
Parallel texts and corpus-based contrastive analysis
Michael Barlow 101121
Machine translation and human translation: Using machine translation 
engines and corpora for teaching and research
Belinda Maia 123145
'Basically speaking': A corpus-based analysis of three English 
adverbs and their formal equivalents in Spanish
Christopher S. Butler 147176
Causative make and faire: A case of mismatch
Gaëtanelle Gilquin 177201
Part III. Meaning and cognition from a contrastive perspective
Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics
Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka 205226
Subjective construal as a 'fashion of speaking' in Japanese
Yoshihiko Ikegami 227250
Grammatical metonymy within the 'action' frame in English 
and Spanish
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Mária Sandra Peña Cervel 251280
Towards a constructionist account of secondary predication with verba 
dicendi et declarandi in English and Spanish
Francisco Gonzálvez-García 281321
Index of terms  323327
Index of languages  329330
Index of scholars  331333




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