This paper will provide a typological-contrastive sketch of the lexical semantic structure of the verb lexicon in Swedish based on data from translation corpora and the information on lexical typology currently available in published works...
Keywords: linguistic typology, contrastive linguistics, lexical semantics, verbs, translation corpora
01/2006 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagParallel texts are texts in different languages that can be considered translational equivalent. We introduce the notion 'massively parallel text′ for such texts that have translations into very many languages...
Keywords: parallel text, massively parallel text, translational equivalents, linguistic typology
02/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThis rather programmatic paper discusses the use of parallel corpora in the typological study of grammatical categories...
Keywords: parallel corpora, typological questionnaires, cross-linguistic comparison, statistical methods, linguistic typology
02/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag