TY  - GEN
T1  - Some ways of looking into a multilingual corpus
T3  - The 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop
A1  - Johansson,Stig
Y1  - 2008/09/05
N2  - In recent years there has been a fast increasing interest in multilingual corpora. What is the relevance of multilingual corpora in linguistic research? As I see it, they are important for a number of reasons:
· They make it possible to compare languages in a systematic manner, including preferences in language use.
· The comparison throws the characteristics of the individual languages into relief and gives evidence of typological as well as of universal features.
· Multilingual corpora consisting of original texts and their translations provide a way of making meaning visible.
· They can be used to reveal characteristics of translated vs. original texts.
· They allow applications in foreign-language teaching, lexicography, translator training, and language engineering.
In my talk I will report on work we have done at the University of Oslo. The focus will be on ways of looking into a multilingual corpus (for more detail, see Johansson 1998 and 2007).
KW  - Linguistik
KW  - Korpus <Linguistik>
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1692
ER  -