Bengt Altenberg

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bengt Altenberg plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Text-based contrastive linguistics

Guest-edited by Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 13:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches

Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics | Translation Studies

Articles

Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg 2013 IntroductionAdvances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
The Swedish adverb gärna, related to German gern(e), has no obvious equivalent in English. To explore this cross-linguistic phenomenon the English correspondences of gärna are examined on the basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, a bidirectional translation corpus. The study shows that… read more
Altenberg, Bengt and Karin Aijmer 2013 IntroductionText-based contrastive linguistics, Altenberg, Bengt and Karin Aijmer (eds.), pp. 137–138 | Article
Altenberg, Bengt 2011 PrefaceA Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger, Meunier, Fanny, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot (eds.), pp. xiii–xvi | Miscellaneous
Conclusive English then and Swedish då are compared on the basis of a bi-directional translation corpus. The examples are classified into five different uses according to certain formal and contextual criteria. The two words are shown to have obvious functional similarities: in each of the… read more
Altenberg, Bengt 2007 Expressing past habit in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive studyFunctional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 97–128 | Article
English has no single verb expressing habitual aspect. Instead, habitual behaviour is indicated in various ways, e.g. by will (predictable or timeless habit), by used to and would (habit in the past), or simply by means of the simple present or past tense, often combined with a temporal adverb… read more
Altenberg, Bengt 2005 The generic person in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of one and manContrast in Context, Aijmer, Karin, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article
To find out how the ‘generic person’ is expressed in English and Swedish, the use and correspondence of the generic pronouns one in English and man in Swedish are examined in a bidirectional English-Swedish translation corpus. The material demonstrates clearly the greater frequency and versatility… read more
Altenberg, Bengt 2002 Causative constructions in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive studyLexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter
Altenberg, Bengt 2002 Using bilingual corpus evidence in learner corpus researchComputer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, Granger, Sylviane, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger 2002 Recent trends in cross-linguistic lexical studiesLexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches, Altenberg, Bengt and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 3–48 | Chapter
Bengt Altenberg University of Lund Sweden read more