This article outlines the beginnings of corpus-based contrastive studies with special
reference to the development of parallel corpora that took place in Scandinavia in the early …

In der kontrastiven Linguistik Englisch-Deutsch gibt es bisher Vergleiche auf den Ebenen
der Grammatik und in geringerem Umfang der Lexik und der Phonetik. Was den Bereich von …

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a sound conceptual basis for a cross-linguistic
study on ellipses as omission phenomena in English and German. The dissertation has a …

Using PARADISE, a German corpus of thematically parallel blog posts and podcast
transcripts, we test how reliably a document's original mode can be classified based on …

The general concept of lexical cohesion has entered linguistic thinking largely through an
interest in (originally monolingual) text and discourse linguistics (Halliday and Hasan 1976; …

The discussion sets out from ten vectors of linguistic endeavour–domains of linguistics
which Christian Matthiessen has developed through advances of theory (eg in …

This study uses the corpus-based contrastive approach to explore the syntactic patterns and
semantic and pragmatic meanings of modal adverbs of certainty (MACs) in English and …

Using PARADISE, a German corpus of thematically parallel blog posts and podcasts
annotated for discourse features, we study discourse-level differences in spoken and written …

Since its pre-nineteenth-century beginnings, historical linguistics has undergone many
changes that time and again have led to major revisions and modifications in theory and …

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a sound conceptual basis for a cross-linguistic
study on ellipses as omission phenomena in English and German. The dissertation has a …