LINGUIST List 21.2607 Tue Jun 15 2010 Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Tavecchio Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Sentence patterns in English and Dutch -A contrastive corpus analysis: Tavecchio Message 1: Sentence patterns in English and Dutch -A contrastive corpus analysis: Tavecchio Date: 15-Jun-2010 From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl> Subject: Sentence patterns in English and Dutch -A contrastive corpus analysis: Tavecchio E-mail this message to a friend Title: Sentence patterns in English and Dutch -A contrastive corpus analysis Series Title: LOT Dissertation Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT                 http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Author: Lotte Marije Tavecchio Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930232 Pages: Price: ---- Abstract: In a time in which English plays a more and more prominent role in Dutch society, with the effect that a considerable number of Dutch people of various professions are constantly exposed to English, there is a growing need for a systematic comparison between these two languages. As the majority of existing contrastive studies are either predominantly qualitative in nature or largely intuition-based, the aim of the present study is to gain insight into the differences between these two languages at the sentence-level by performing a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of nearly 17,000 sentences, divided across two languages and the four genres of academic journal articles, newspaper articles, short stories and public information leaflets. A detailed discourse-grammatical analysis of these sentences has uncovered the main sentence patterns in English and Dutch. It has also tried to establish the extent to which sentence structure is determined by the linguistic system of either language, by the genre in which a sentence is written, or by the interaction between these two. This study has provided insight into the rhetorical design of sentences in four different genres at both the levels of the individual languages and the languages in contrast. Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics                             Anthropological Linguistics                             Sentence processing Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)                             English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48850 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 15-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.