Seeing through multilingual corpora
In: Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on
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Stig Johansson
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Abstract
In the last 10-15 years there has been a rapidly growing interest in multilingual corpora. In this paper I comment on the development and give some examples from recent research, drawing in particular on work connected with the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. Notions dealt with include translation paradigms, mutual correspondence, semantic mirrors, zero correspondence, and translation effects. Special attention is paid to the English nouns person and thing in a contrastive perspective.