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T1 Multiple modification in English and Spanish NPs: a corpus-based contrastive study
A1 Ramón García, Noelia
A2 Filologia Inglesa
K1 Traducción e interpretación
K1 Corpora (Lingüística)
K1 Lengua inglesa
K1 Lengua española
AB This paper is an English-Spanish corpus-based contrastive study of multiple modification within the boundaries of the noun phrase. This issue is particularly problematic when comparing English and Spanish, and causes difficulties in foreign language learning as well as in translation processes between the two languages. The aim of this study is to unveil the interaction between meaning and grammar in this linguistic area in English and Spanish, revealing the different grammatical structures used in the two languages to actualise a particular meaning. The approach followed in this paper is a functional one (Bondarko 1991; Chesterman 1998). The empirical data on which the study is based are instances of authentic language in use extracted from two large monolingual reference corpora, Cobuild/Bank of English and CREA (Reference Corpus of Contemporary Spanish). The contrastive analysis consists of three stages: description, juxtaposition and a contrastive stage in which functional-semantic correspondences are suggested on the basis of meaning.
PB John Benjamins Publishing
YR 2018
FD 2018-11-21
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/9141
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/9141
NO International journal of corpus linguistics, 2006, vol. 11, n. 4
NO p. 463-495
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 26-abr-2024