The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition
characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with
corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of
corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two
main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the
literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the
data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation
data versus comparable data), and the development of advanced
methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive
research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to
find out what (new) types of data are most useful for what kind of
contrastive questions, and which advanced statistical techniques
are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive
research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through
the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a
wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels.
In sum, this book provides an update on new methodological and
theoretical insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will
stimulate further research within this field.
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