List of tables

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. List of figures xvii
6. List of tables xix
7. List of abbreviations xxi
8. 1. The case for corpora in contrastive studies 1
9. 2. Building a multilingual corpus 9
10. 3. Using a multilingual corpus 23
11. 4. Contrasting nouns: times of the day, mind, person, thing, fact 41
12. 5. Loving and hating in English and Norwegian 95
13. 6. Spending time in English, Norwegian and German 107
14. 7. The English verb seem and its correspondences in Norwegian 117
15. 8. Some aspects of usuality in English and Norwegian 139
16. 9. In search of the missing not: Some notes on negation in English and Norwegian 155
17. 10. The generic person in English, German, and Norwegian 175
18. 11. Why change the subject? On changes in subject selection in translation from English into Norwegian 197
19. 12. Sentence openings in English and Norwegian 217
20. 13. The semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian concessive marker likevel: Evidence from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (by Thorstein Fretheim and Stig Johansson) 261
21. 14. How well can well be translated? On the English discourse particle well and its correspondences in Norwegian and German 279
22. 15. Problems and prospects 301
23. References 317
24. Appendix: List of corpus texts 329
25. Author index 351
26. Subject index 353