Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2026). A cross-linguistic cross-register study of the verb phrase in English and Norwegian face-to-face conversation and fictional dialogue. I Rørvik, Sylvi & Izquierdo, Marlén (Red.), Cross-linguistic Register Variation. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027233943. s. 24–51. doi: https:/benjamins.com/catalog/scl.125.02ebe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter reports on a contrastive study of English and Norwegian conversation and fictional dialogue, offering insights into formal and semantic characteristics of verb phrases (VPs) from a cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective. Cross-linguistically, fictional dialogue is shown to behave similarly and comes across as a formally more homogenous register than conversation. In terms of semantic features, cross-linguistic differences are prominent in both registers, despite some overlap in process types. The cross-register analysis reveals that authors writing in English and Norwegian do not imitate the formal characteristics of the VP in conversation in their written dialogues. Semantically, authors writing in English produce a more conversational style, while Norwegian authors produce more identifying and action-driven dialogues compared to conversation.

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2025). English GO and Norwegian GÅ: Lexicogrammatical patterns and translation paradigms. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. doi: 10.1075/lic.00054.ebe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the cognate verbs go and gå in an English-Norwegian contrastive perspective. On the basis of bidirectional translation data, the study contributes new insight regarding their relatively low cross-linguistic correspondence rate. Although the verbs share many of their lexicogrammatical features, some notable exceptions are uncovered. English go seems to be semantically more flexible than gå in some of its uses, while Norwegian gå is arguably syntactically more versatile. As a consequence, the cross-linguistic relationship between the verbs is far from straightforward, and translations are clearly influenced by diverging polysemies and lexicogrammatical preferences.

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2024). Corpus-based contrastive studies and AI-generated translations. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 25(2), s. 289–315. doi: 10.1075/lic.00051.ebe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2024). Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se. I Čermáková, Anna; Hasselgård, Hilde; Malà, Markéta & Šebestová, Denisa (Red.), Contrastive Corpus Linguistics. Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350385931. s. 29–61. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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), s. 57–83. doi: 10.1075/lic.00035.ebe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract This study focuses on the seemingly simple grammatical category of adjectives. However, the framework adopted for analysing adjectives from both a cross-linguistic and a cross-register perspective highlights features of grammatical complexity within phrases as well as contrastive complexity within and across languages and registers. Using English-Norwegian comparable data from the fictional sub-registers of narrative and dialogue, the analysis uncovers both similarities and differences in the structural and semantic features of adjectives. Most notable is perhaps the impact of register at all levels of analysis, including adjectival function (attributive vs. predicative), the degree of phrase complexity and semantic class. The contrastive analysis proper, i.e. comparing adjective use across languages, reveals that English and Norwegian have more in common within each sub-register than across them. For example, the lexico-grammatical behaviour of adjectives in English narrative has more in common with Norwegian narrative than it has with English dialogue. To the extent that there are clear general differences between English and Norwegian, these are mainly found in the proportions and preferences of a few specific features.

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2024). Combining Mutual Correspondence and Textual Variation in a Study of English GO and Norwegian GÅ. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 23(2), s. 6–33. doi: 10.35360/njes.v23i2.39157. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article expands and nuances the procedures of calculating translation bias (TB) and mutual correspondence (MC) in contrastive studies. Both measures are intended to show how similar, or mutually translatable, two linguistic items are across languages. Traditionally, these procedures have been carried out without attending to variation across individual texts in a corpus. In a contrastive case study of English GOand Norwegian GÅ,we calculate the TB and MC of the fully congruent instances, i.e.,instances where the verbs correspond to each other in the same lexicogrammatical patterns, both in the traditional way and in a newly developed procedure where textual distribution is integrated into the measures. The study substantiates the initial hypothesis that the distributive variants of TB and MC—Distributive Translation Biasand Distributive Mutual Correspondences—are more informative and reliable, as the values more accurately show the range and distribution of correspondences.The study also suggests that the strict definition of congruence adopted (requiring lexicogrammatical correspondence) is better suited to capture details of cross-linguistic similarity than simply to require formal correspondence at the level of word class.This is made evident by the varying degrees of mutual correspondence in the different verb categories, e.g.,the generally higher correspondence measures for intransitive GO and GÅ compared to the phrasal verb use.

• 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), s. 27–58. doi: 10.35360/njes.729. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper reports on a cross-linguistic study of ‘be’ verbs in Czech, English and Norwegian, viz. být, be and være, drawing on data from the fiction part of the International Comparable Corpus (Čermáková et al. 2021). The study identifies two main uses of ‘be’ verbs: auxiliary and linking, plus an ‘other’ category which includes minor (often) language-specific uses. The study reveals marked proportional differences in how the three languages exploit the grammatical and functional potential of their respective ‘be’ verbs, notably there is a marked preference for linking uses in English and Norwegian and a more even distribution between auxiliary and linking uses in Czech. In a case study of the linking use, the languages are shown to behave similarly, but with some minor differences regarding choice of adjective to describe fictional subjects. The methodology highlights the importance of a carefully crafted tertium comparationis at several levels, not only in relation to datasets and linguistic phenomena investigated, but also as regards terminology and grammatical traditions of description for the languages compared.

• Paquot, Magali; Larsson, Tove; Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Meyere, Damien De & Valentin, Larry [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (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. 10(2), s. 1–15. doi: 10.32714/ricl.10.02.02. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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.

• 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), s. 143–169. doi: 10.7202/1092194ar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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), s. 243–266. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2021.1886676. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the use and non-use of objects with six transitive verbs in a corpus of English football match reports. The verbs were selected on the basis of their frequency as well as their lexico-grammatical features of “footballness” and transitivity. The study suggests that object omission may not be as pervasive as hinted at in previous studies (e.g. Bergh and Ohlander 2016; Ruppenhofer and Michaelis 2010). Regarding potential reasons for object omission, it is uncovered that the football verbs-net, save, play-are more prone to object omission than the general verbs: feed, create, take. This is attributed to the strong attraction of the former to recurrent collocates such as goal and ball. This suggests that verbs used to report on unremarkable and canonical situations (to the game of football) more readily omit the object, albeit not on a general basis, as individual differences between the verbs also emerge.

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• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2025). From star (N) to star (V): A contrastive study of cognate noun/verb pairs in English and Norwegian. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2024). Corpus-based Contrastive Studies and AI-generated Translations. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2024). A cross-linguistic cross-register study of the verb phrase in English and Norwegian face-to-face conversation and fictional dialogue. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2024). English in Contrast: Corpus-based Approaches. Introduction. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 23(2), s. 1–5. doi: 10.35360/njes.v23i2.39154. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kupietz, Marc; Barbaresi, Adrien; Čermáková, Anna; Czachor, Małgorzata; Diewald, Nils & Ebeling, Jarle [Vis alle 19 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). News from the International Comparable Corpus: First launch of ICC written. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2023). Going places: English go and Norwegian gå – mutual correspondence and textual variation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2023). Contrasting languages: Different corpora, different potentials. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2022). Reporting clauses in British general vs. crime fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2022). Structural and semantic features of adjectives across languages and registers. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Compiling corpora of student writing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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