Project

Contrastive research involving Spanish, English, French and Dutch: descriptive, computational and theoretical aspects.

Code
01T00509
Duration
01 March 2009 → 30 September 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
Keywords
contrastive linguistics functional linguistics corpus linguistics
 
Project description

Addition of the Spanish component to the current Contragram research on verb structures in English, French and Dutch. More specifically: testing of a hypothesis regarding the difference between 'satellite framing' and 'verb framing' languages. Joint research is also envisaged on the limits of corpus-driven research, both imposed by the available software and by the nature of certain research questions.