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Pioneers of contrastive linguistics
Languages in Contrast, 2022Abstract This paper revisits the translational practices of Dominican missionaries who worked in multilingual settings in the Guatemalan highlands in the colonial period. It is argued that the missionaries developed the emerging ideas of European Renaissance linguistics and applied methods of contrastive linguistics to indigenous ...
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Contrastive linguistics and micro-variation
Languages in Contrast, 2012This article deals with a very general problem, namely the origin of the well-known distinction between dialectal and typological variation. It is argued that the fact that the possible grammatical choices are more restricted within a dialectal domain is not due to a supposed principled difference in the parameters that rule variation. Rather, they are
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Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Cross-linguistic Contrast of English and Chinese
2015English and Chinese are the two most widely spoken world languages that differ genetically. Compared with typologically related languages like English and French, cross-linguistic contrast of such distinctly different languages is more challenging yet promising. The promise relates to the difference — by studying such language pairs in contrast, we can
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THE GREAT LINGUIST WHO FOUNDED CONTRASTATIVE LINGUISTICS
International Innovation ResearchThis article discusses Alisher Navoi’s phonetic, lexical, and grammatical views on the two language systems presented in his work “Muhokamat ul-lug‘atayn” as a contrastive linguist, using scientific evidence.
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Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics
2008This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics.
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Contrastive Corpus Linguistics
Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of ...openaire +1 more source
A Bibliography of Contrastive Linguistics
The Slavic and East European Journal, 1966Valdis J. Zeps +2 more
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