Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

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Fields of expertise

Modern English grammar, corpus linguistics, corpus development / corpus design, contrastive linguistics, learner language analysis, verb semantics, phraseology.

Research and research-related projects

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Tags: English, English language, Modern English grammar, Corpus linguistics, Corpus development, Contrastive linguistics, Learner language

Publications

  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2024). Structural and semantic features of adjectives across languages and registers. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 24(1), p. 57–83. doi: 10.1075/lic.00035.ebe. Full text in Research Archive
  • Čermáková, Anna; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2023). ‘Be’ Verbs in a Contrastive Perspective: The Case of BÝT, BE and VÆRE. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 22(2), p. 27–58. doi: 10.35360/njes.729. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2022). The function of recurrent word-combinations in English translations from three different languages. Meta : Journal des traducteurs. ISSN 0026-0452. 67(1), p. 143–169. doi: 10.7202/1092194ar.
  • Paquot, Magali; Larsson, Tove; Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; De Meyere, Damien & Valentin, Larry [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). 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. ISSN 2243-4712. 10(2), p. 1–15. doi: 10.32714/ricl.10.02.02. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports. In Čermáková, Anna; Egan, Thomas Laurence; Hasselgård, Hilde & Rørvik, Sylvi (Ed.), Time in Languages, Languages in Time. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027209689. p. 229–254. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1075/scl.101.10ebe. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ström Herold, Jenny; Levin, Magnus; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Čermáková, Anna (2021). Analysing complex contrastive data. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 11(1), p. 1–6. doi: 10.15845/bells.v11i1.3434. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Hope for the future: An analysis of HOPE/HÅP(E) across genres and languages. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 11(1), p. 7–26. doi: 10.15845/bells.v11i1.3436. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). To score or to score a goal? Transitivity in football match reports. English Studies: A Journal of English Language. ISSN 0013-838X. 102(2), p. 243–266. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2021.1886676. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2021). The Functions of N-Grams in Bilingual and Learner Corpora: An Integrated Contrastive Approach. In Granger, Sylviane (Eds.), Perspectives on the L2 Phrasicon: The View from Learner Corpora. Multilingual Matters. ISSN 9781788924856. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2020). Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction. In Jonsson, Ewa & Larsson, Tove (Ed.), Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts. In honor of Merja Kytö. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027207654. p. 302–316. doi: 10.1075/scl.97.18ebe.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2020). Contrastive Analysis, Tertium Comparationis and Corpora. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 19, p. 97–117. doi: 10.35360/njes.514. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). The language of football match reports in a contrastive perspective. In Callies, Marcus & Levin, Magnus (Ed.), Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports. Texts, Media, Modalities. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350088207. doi: 10.5040/9781350088238.ch-003.
  • Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). At the interface between Contrastive Analysis and Learner Corpus Research: A parallel contrastive approach. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 17(2), p. 182–214. doi: 10.35360/njes.438. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Comparing n-gram-based functional categories in original versus translated texts. Corpora. ISSN 1749-5032. 13(3), p. 347–370. doi: 10.3366/cor.2018.0153. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Exploring cross-linguistic congruence: The case of two stance frames in English and Norwegian. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 9(1), p. 69–92. doi: 10.15845/bells.v9i1.1419. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). Bringing home the bacon! A contrastive study of the cognates bring/bringe in English and Norwegian. Kalbotyra. ISSN 1392-1517. 70, p. 104–126. doi: 10.15388/klbt.2017.11193. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2017). A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Recurrent Word Combinations in a Comparable Corpus of English and Norwegian Fiction. In Janebová, Marketá; Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina & Martinková, Michaela (Ed.), Contrasting English and Other Languages through Corpora. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-4438-9601-6. p. 2–31. doi: 10.1515/icame-2017-0002.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). ADJ + enough + resultative/explanative that-clause: Diachronic development and conditions of use. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English. ISSN 1797-4453. 18. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2017). A functional comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts. ICAME Journal. ISSN 0801-5775. 41, p. 31–52. doi: 10.1515/icame-2017-0002. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2016). Does corpus size matter? Revisiting ENPC case studies with an extended version of the corpus. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 15(3), p. 33–54. doi: 10.35360/njes.375.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Learner corpora and phraseology. In Granger, Sylviane; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle & Meunier, Fanny (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781107041196. p. 207–230. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781139649414.010.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions. In Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (Ed.), Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-4438-7808-1. p. 1–6.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). A contrastive study of Norwegian pseudo-coordination and two English posture-verb constructions. In Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (Ed.), Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-4438-7808-1. p. 29–57.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). Loving and hating in English and Portuguese: A corpus-based contrastive study. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 7(1), p. 439–456. doi: 10.5617/osla.1443.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). An English-Norwegian contrastive analysis of downtoners, more or less. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 14(1), p. 62–89. doi: 10.35360/njes.340.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2014). For Pete's sake!: A corpus-based contrastive study of the English/Norwegian patterns "for * sake" /" for * skyld". Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 14(2), p. 191–213. doi: 10.1075/lic.14.2.02ebe.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). An eye for an eye? Exploring the cross-linguistic phraseology of eye/øye. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. 37(2), p. 225–255. doi: 10.1017/S0332586514000195.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). Cross-linguistic semantic prosody: The case of 'commit', 'signs of' and 'utterly' and their Norwegian correspondences. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 6(1), p. 161–179. doi: 10.5617/osla.695.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Grønn, Atle; Hauge, Kjetil Rå & Santos, Diana (2014). Corpus-based studies in contrastive linguistics at the University of Oslo. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 6(1). doi: 10.5617/osla.897.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). "To find oneself a partner" vs. "to find a partner": A contrastive analysis of the patterns V REFL NPindef and V NPindef in English and Norwegian. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 13(2), p. 212–237.
  • Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Introduction. In Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (Ed.), Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 978 90 272 0363 2. p. 1–9.
  • Paquot, Magali; Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Writer/reader visibility in learner writing across genres: A comparison of the French and Norwegian components of the ICLE and VESPA learner corpora. Corpora and Language in Use. ISSN 2034-6417. p. 377–388.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2013). From Babylon to Bergen: On the usefulness of aligned texts. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 3(1), p. 23–42. doi: 10.15845/bells.v3i1.359.
  • Ebeling, Jarle; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2013). Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences. In Aijmer, Karin & Altenberg, Bengt (Ed.), Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 978 90 272 0359 5. p. 177–199. doi: 10.1075/scl.54.11ebe.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2012). Textual reduction in translated dialogue in film versus literary fiction. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 11(3), p. 100–126.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Ebeling, Jarle & Hasselgård, Hilde (2012). Aspects of corpus linguistics: compilation, annotation, analysis - Introduction. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English. ISSN 1797-4453. 12.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Wickens, Paul (2012). Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing. Language and Computers (L&C). ISSN 0921-5034. doi: 10.1163/9789401207478_004.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2011). Recurrent word-combinations in English student essays. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 10(1), p. 49–76. doi: 10.35360/njes.242.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2009). Oslo Interactive English: Corpus-driven exercises on the Web. In Aijmer, Karin (Eds.), Corpora and Language Teaching. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 978-90-272-2307-4. p. 67–82.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2009). On-campus teaching and off-campus online self-study. In Koch, Susanne Anette Kjekshus (Eds.), Ringer i vann. Lenge leve fleksibel læring ved Universitetet i Oslo. 7Letras. ISSN 978-82-997407-3-9. p. 87–100.

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  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-7808-1. 266 p.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Patterns in Contrast. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-0364-9. 257 p.
  • Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978 90 272 0363 2. 291 p.

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  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2023). Contrasting languages: Different corpora, different potentials.
  • Kupietz, Marc; Barbaresi, Adrien; Čermáková, Anna; Czachor, Małgorzata; Diewald, Nils & Ebeling, Jarle [Show all 19 contributors for this article] (2023). News from the International Comparable Corpus: First launch of ICC written.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2023). Going places: English go and Norwegian gå – mutual correspondence and textual variation.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2022). Structural and semantic features of adjectives across languages and registers.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2022). Reporting clauses in British general vs. crime fiction.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Compiling corpora of student writing.
  • Čermáková, Anna; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). BE verbs in a contrastive perspective: The case of BÝT, BE and VÆRE.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Seeing through languages and registers: A closer look at the cognates "see" and "se".
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Bidirectional parallel corpora: Challenges and possibilities.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Oslo Multilingual Corpus i Glossa.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2020). Hope for the future: An analysis of HOPE/HÅP(E) across genres and languages.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). Keywords and key words in English and Norwegian football match reports.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). Minutes of action! The language of football match reports in a contrastive perspective.
  • Xu, Xiuling & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). An interview with Signe Oksefjell Ebeling. Corpus Linguistics. 11, p. 1–12.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). Review of Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann (eds.), Corpora and lexis (Language and Computers 81). Leiden and Boston: Brill / Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 306. ISBN 9789004361133. English Language and Linguistics. ISSN 1360-6743. doi: 10.1017/S1360674319000224.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2019). Contrastive Analysis, Tertium comparationis, and Corpora.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Korpus som infrastruktur.
  • Kirk, John M.; Čermáková, Anna; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Ebeling, Jarle; Křen, Michal & Aijmer, Karin [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2018). Introducing the International Comparable Corpus.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2018). Dialogue vs. narrative in fiction: A cross-linguistic comparison.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). What can a diachronic corpus of modern British fiction tell us about changes in (British) society?
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2018). Corpora et comparatio linguarum: Textual and contextual perspectives. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). ISSN 1892-2449. 9(1), p. 1–4. doi: 10.15845/bells.v9i1.1518. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Corpus analysis: comparing word sequences across languages.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2018). Corpora for contrastive research.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). An eye for an eye? A multilingual look at the phraseology of eye.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Using the BAWE and VESPA corpora to explore learners’ and native-speakers’ use of recurrent word-combinations across academic disciplines.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Contrastive phraseology: method and analysis.
  • Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). The interfaces between LCR and contrastive analysis. A parallel contrastive experiment.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). The Bidirectional Contrastive Method in theory and practice.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2016). A functional comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts.
  • Nordrum, Lene; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2016). Introduction - Languages in contrast 20 years on. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 15(3), p. 1–6.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2016). A cross-linguistic comparison of recurrent word-combinations in a comparable corpus of English and Norwegian fiction.
  • Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2016). A comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts.
  • Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). The Norwegian component of the VESPA corpus – compilation, annotation and use.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). The ADJ + enough + resultative that-clause construction: Diachronic development and conditions of use.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). Datadrevet grammatikkundervisning.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). Does corpus size matter? Revisiting ENPC case studies with an extended version of the corpus.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). The secret life of words: Implications for English language teaching and learning?
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). Contrastive phraseology: Method and analysis.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). An eye for an eye? Exploring the cross-linguistic phraseology of eye/øye.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2013). Learners’ and native speakers’ use of recurrent word-combinations across disciplines.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2013). "For Pete's sake!" A corpus-based contrastive study of the English/Norwegian patterns "for * sake/skyld".
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2013). A contrastive analysis of downtoners, more or less.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Cross-linguistic semantic prosody: The case of "commit", "signs of" and "utterly" and their Norwegian correspondences.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2012). Patterns in contrast.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2012). Why did she build herself a house when she could simply have built a house? - A contrastive analysis of the patterns V REFL NPindef and V NPindef in English vs. Norwegian.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2011). The VESPA corpus: status report and first explorations.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2011). VESPA macro tagging.
  • Ebeling, Jarle; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2011). Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences.
  • Paquot, Magali; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Heuboeck, Alois & Valentin, Larry (2010). The VESPA Tagging Manual.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2010). Semantic prosody in a cross-linguistic perspective.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2009). Gilquin, Gaëtanelle, Szilvia Papp, and María Belén Díez-Bedmar (eds.) 2008. Linking up contrastive and learner corpus research. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 8(3), p. 208–214.
  • Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2009). Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing.

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