Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. In memory of Stig Johansson v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora 7
7. Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora 25
8. A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish 57
9. English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French 83
10. A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change 103
11. Youngspeak 127
12. Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting 139
13. Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries 157
14. Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences 177
15. Cohesive substitution in English and German 201
16. The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish 233
17. Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres 261
18. Author index 287
19. Subject index 291