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NEW APPROACHES TO CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS KARTO...

The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of
interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of
corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not
yet been fully addressed in the literature  namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the
data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data versus comparable data) 
and the development of advanced methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to
contrastive research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what
(new) types of data are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions  and which advanced
statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive
research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through the contrastive analysis of
various language pairs or groups  and a wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all
linguistic levels. In sum  this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical
insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within this
field.

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