Time in Languages, Languages in Time

Time in Languages, Languages in Time
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9789027258960
ISBN-13 : 9027258961
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Book Synopsis Time in Languages, Languages in Time by : Anna Čermáková

Download or read book Time in Languages, Languages in Time written by Anna Čermáková and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable, less work has been carried out on comparing how we talk about time in various languages and how languages change over time. Several methodological challenges are addressed and solutions proposed, such as how to deal with poor quality historical data and how to identify n-grams in typologically different languages for purposes of comparison. The results of the various studies show how multilingual corpora can increase our knowledge of language-specific features as well as linguistic, typological and cultural differences and similarities across languages.


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