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Harry Potter meets Le petit prince – On the usefulness of parallel corpora in crosslinguistic investigations
This paper documents some of the experiences I have made in the course of my (areal) typological research projects...
Keywords: corpus, parallel texts, literary sources, methodology
02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagAdvantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological investigations
In this paper, advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological studies are considered according to the criteria of diversity, domains, analysis, per-spective, quality, representativity, and comparability...
Keywords: parallel texts, motion events, multi-verb constructions, comparative constructions, quantitative variables
02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagDemonstratives in parallel texts: a case study
The aim of this paper is to show the usefulness of parallel texts for typological inves-tigations. In order to analyze the way in which demonstrative systems of the European languages function, two kinds of data have been considered: first, the results of a questionnaire based on situations represented in 48 pictures, which will be necessarily discussed only in a summarized way here...
Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, parallel texts, dyad of conversation
02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag