Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics

Download or read book Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics written by Stefania Marzo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. This title illustrates this trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies.