Hilde Hasselgård

University of Oslo

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Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

University of Oslo

Stig Johansson

University of Oslo

Cathrine Fabricius‐Hansen

University of Oslo

Signe Oksefjell

University of Oslo

Magali Paquot

UCLouvain

Jarle Ebeling

University of Oslo

Susan Pintzuk

University of York

Juhani Klemola

University of Leeds

Bergljot Behrens

University of Warsaw

Merja Kytö

Uppsala University

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The Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase (VESPA): Towards a multi-L1 and multi-register learner corpus of disciplinary writing

Research in Corpus Linguistics (2022)

Magali Paquot Tove Larsson Hilde Hasselgård Signe Oksefjell Ebeling Damien De Meyere

The Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase (VESPA first release) is the result of an international corpus compilation project that aims to address the lack of large-scale, open access, multi-L1, multi-discipline and multi-register learner corpora. This corpus report provides a detailed description of VESPA and illustrates possible uses of the corpus for register exploration of learner data. Specifically, it first offers an overview of the makeup of the corpus and the online interface that can be used to search and download the corpus. It then gives an illustrative example of a study where multi-dimensional analysis was used to investigate the relative importance of register vis-à-vis other factors in learner academic writing. In the concluding remarks, we identify priorities for future developments in the VESPA project, including the addition of more L1 components, more disciplines and more registers, as well as the compilation of a comparable corpus of native student writing.

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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (1996)

Hilde Hasselgård Juhani Klemola Outi Merisalo Merja Kytö

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Introduction – Languages in contrast 20 years on

Nordic Journal of English Studies (2016)

Lene Nordrum Signe Oksefjell Ebeling Hilde Hasselgård

This special issue of the Nordic Journal of English Studies comprises papers from the symposium Languages in Contrast held in Lund 5 December 2014 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Nordic Parallel Corpus Project which led to the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC), the Swedish-English Parallel Corpus (ESPC) and the Finnish-English Contrastive Corpus Studies Project (FECCS). When they were first compiled, the parallel corpora opened up new possibilities for empirical, corpus-based questions about language relationships and translations (see Johansson 2007, 2012: 1).

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Corpus-based contrastive studies

Languages in Contrast (2020)

Hilde Hasselgård

Abstract This article outlines the beginnings of corpus-based contrastive studies with special reference to the development of parallel corpora that took place in Scandinavia in the early 1990s under the direction of Stig Johansson. It then discusses multilingual corpus types and methodological issues of their exploration, including the tertium comparationis for contrastive studies based on different types of corpora. Some glimpses are offered of recent developments and current trends in the field, including the widening scope of corpus-based contrastive analysis, concerning language pairs as well as the kinds of topics studied and the methods used. The paper ends by identifying and discussing some challenges for the field and indicating prospects and directions for its future.

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Medial position

Cambridge University Press eBooks (2010)

Hilde Hasselgård

As outlined in chapter 3, medial position is defined as any position between the subject and a postverbal obligatory element, thus covering both medial and initial-end position as defined by Quirk et al. (1985: 491, 499). Three variants of medial are recognised: M1 between the subject and the (first part of the) verb phrase, as in (1), M2 after an auxiliary, but before the main verb, as in (2), and M3 between the verb phrase and some other obligatory element, viz. an object, a predicative, or an obligatory adverbial, as in (3).

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10.1017/cbo9780511676253.006

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Crosslinguistic Differences in Grammar

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2025)

Hilde Hasselgård

Abstract This chapter discusses grammar in terms of the levels of unit, structure, class, and system, which may be similar or different across languages. It discusses the concept of tertium comparationis in contrastive studies and presents some alternatives relative to the material and methods used in the language comparison. Special attention is given to the use of corpora in crosslinguistic studies, and a variety of case studies are briefly presented which describe crosslinguistic differences in grammar at various levels of language description. Various applications of crosslinguistic grammar knowledge are also outlined.

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10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0290.pub2

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Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis

Studies in corpus linguistics (2011)

Hilde Hasselgård Stig Johansson

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10.1075/scl.45.06has

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Adjunct Adverbials in English

Hilde Hasselgård

In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - clause elements that typically refer to circumstances of time, space, reason and manner - cover a range of meanings and can be placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a sentence. The description of the frequency of meaning types and discussion of the reasons for selecting positions show that the use of adverbials differs across text types. Adverbial usage is often linked to the general build-up of a text and part of its content and purpose. In using real texts, Hasselgård identifies a challenge for the classification of adjuncts, and also highlights that some adjuncts have uses that extend into the textual and interpersonal domains, obscuring the traditional divisions between adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts.

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Time adverbials in English and Norwegian news discourse

Studies in corpus linguistics (2021)

Hilde Hasselgård

Abstract This chapter examines time adverbials in English and Norwegian as evidenced in two corpora of news articles. The adverbials are identified through a manual, bottom-up procedure, and their syntactic realizations, semantic types and positions are analysed. The comparison includes the lexical realizations of time adverbials in both languages, partly through the lens of lexical priming. Similarities between the languages include the distribution of syntactic and semantic types of time adverbials. Cross-linguistic differences in adverbial placement are evident in clause-medial position, where English is more restrictive than Norwegian. The lexical comparison shows that the languages may differ in how similar meanings are realized. Furthermore, the lexical priming of some frequent lexical items reveals lexeme-specific and possibly register-specific patterns.

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Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Cathrine Fabricius‐Hansen Stig Johansson Bergljot Behrens Hilde Hasselgård

The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were first presented at the symposium Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective held in Oslo in November/December 2000. The descriptions are functionally oriented, and their common focus is how information structure – in a broad sense – can be compared across languages. 'Information structure' has been approached in a variety of ways by the authors, so as to give a broad picture of this fundamental principle of text production, involving the way in which a speaker/writer chooses to present a message in terms of given/new information, focus, cohesion, and point of view. Central to much of the research is the problem of establishing criteria for isolating linguistic constraints on language use from cultural-linguistic conventions in text production. The linguistic comparison includes English, German and/or one of the Scandinavian languages, with sidelights to other languages. Most of the papers are text- or corpus-based, and the ongoing work on parallel corpora in Scandinavia is reflected in several contributions.

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