Abstract
Corpus-based Studies in Contrastive Linguistics at the University of Oslo
Highlights
In the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS), University of Oslo, there is a long-standing tradition of corpus-based contrastive studies, dating back to the early 1990s when the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus project was initiated by Stig Johansson
Atle grønn explores the temporal organization of counterfactual conditionals with focus on the perfect auxiliary ha (= ‘have’) in Norwegian
Silje susanne alvestad presents an analysis of aspect in Slavic imperatives based on her PhD thesis defended at ILOS in 2013
Summary
Data from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus show that languages like English, German and French are much more well-behaved at the syntax-semantics interface when it comes to the use of the past perfect in counterfactuals. Her comparative study involves twelve different Slavic languages with examples taken from the ParaSol corpus. The different distribution of imperfective and perfective aspect in Slavic ebeling, grønn, rå hauge & santos imperatives – with more imperfective forms found in the east Slavic languages – is accounted for by an aspect neutralization parameter which says that “fake” imperfective morphology can be used when the aspectual meaning is semantically definite.
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