Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Languages in Contrast
Volume Number: 24
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 02/29/2024

Subtitle: Special issue: Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity

Main Text:

2024. v, 163 pp.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Comparing crosslinguistic complexity
Jenny Ström Herold & Magnus Levin
pp. 1–4

ARTICLES

English complex premodifiers and their German and Swedish correspondences: The case of hyphenated premodifiers in a non‑fiction corpus
Magnus Levin & Jenny Ström Herold
pp. 5–32

The Spanish subjunctive mood and its English correspondences: A case for complexity across languages
Noelia Ramón & Rosa Rabadán
pp. 33–56

Structural and semantic features of adjectives across languages and registers
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
pp. 57–83

Simple and complex help constructions in English and Norwegian: A contrastive study
Thomas Egan
pp. 84–108

Concessive subordination in English and Norwegian
Hilde Hasselgård
pp. 109–132

Cross-linguistic Dependency Length Minimization in scientific language: Syntactic complexity reduction in English and German in the Late Modern period
Marie-Pauline Krielke
pp. 133–163

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics