A Methodological Proposal for the Study of Semantic Functions across Languages

Bibliographic Data

ID4345817
AuthorsBelén Labrador De La Cruz (University of León, León, Spain), Belén Labrador (0000-0002-3341-1661, Universidad de León, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume49
Issue2
Pages360-380
Publication date2004-10-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/009357ar
OpenAlexW2171160649
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

After a brief revision of the major currents of thought and grammatical models in the history of CS (Contrastive Studies), a method of analysis suitable for corpus-based descriptive studies across languages is presented and discussed in this paper. As an alternative to translation corpora, the use of comparable corpora is advocated and put into practice in a large-scale research on a particular semantic function, quantification, and its expression in two languages, English and Spanish. The different phases of the process are explained and a summary of achievements is provided. The ultimate purpose of the paper is to contribute to the strengthening of the discipline by offering new results about one pair of languages and by suggesting a methodology that can be broadly applied to different semantic fields and pairs of languages

Contrastive analysis · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Process (computing) · Programming language · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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