Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Comparing n-gram-based functional categories in original versus translated texts. Corpora.  ISSN 1749-5032.  13(3), s 347- 370 . doi: 10.3366/cor.2018.0153
• 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), s 69- 92 . doi: 10.15845/bells.v9i1.1419 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• 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.  ISSN 1654-6970.  17(2), s 182- 214 Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents a model for combining contrastive analysis and interlanguage analysis. It can be seen as an extension of Granger’s (1996) Integrated Contrastive Model, but it explicitly requires a bidirectional parallel corpus for the contrastive analysis and matching learner corpora for the (multiple) interlanguage analysis. Thus, the model operates at the interface between Contrastive Analysis and Learner Corpus Research. Within the model, the contrastive, cross-linguistic analysis produces hypotheses for learner behaviour in the languages examined. Hence the learner corpus study of L2 data includes a cross-linguistic interlanguage analysis, based on comparable data produced by (at least) two learner groups (with different L1s and different L2s). As an illustration of the model, the English noun people and its typical Norwegian translation correspondences (FOLK and MENNESKE) are studied, with particular attention to postmodification patterns. The proposed Parallel Contrastive Model is shown to have the potential to throw new light on the cross-linguistic relationship between languages and interlanguages in a common framework.

• 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 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• 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, s 104- 126 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2017). A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Recurrent Word Combinations in a Comparable Corpus of English and Norwegian Fiction, In Marketá Janebová; Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski & Michaela Martinková (ed.),  Contrasting English and Other Languages through Corpora.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-4438-9601-6.  Chapter 1.  s 2 - 31
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2017). A functional comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts. ICAME Journal/International Computer Archive of Modern English.  ISSN 0801-5775.  41, s 31- 52 . doi: 10.1515/icame-2017-0002 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2016). Does corpus size matter? Revisiting ENPC case studies with an extended version of the corpus. Nordic Journal of English Studies.  ISSN 1654-6970.  15(3), s 33- 54
• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). An English-Norwegian contrastive analysis of downtoners, more or less. Nordic Journal of English Studies.  ISSN 1654-6970.  14(1), s 62- 89
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). A contrastive study of Norwegian pseudo-coordination and two English posture-verb constructions, In Signe Oksefjell Ebeling & Hilde Hasselgård (ed.),  Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-4438-7808-1.  Chapter 3.  s 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), s 439- 456
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb constructions, In Signe Oksefjell Ebeling & Hilde Hasselgård (ed.),  Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-4438-7808-1.  Chapter 1.  s 1 - 6
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Learner corpora and phraseology, In Sylviane Granger; Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Fanny Meunier (ed.),  The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research.  Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 9781107041196.  10.  s 207 - 230
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2015). Learners' and native speakers' use of recurrent word-combinations across disciplines. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS).  ISSN 1892-2449.  6, s 87- 106
• 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), s 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), s 161- 179
• 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), s 191- 213 . doi: 10.1075/lic.14.2.02ebe
• 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)
• 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), s 212- 237
• Ebeling, Jarle; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2013). Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences, In Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg (ed.),  Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson.  John Benjamins Publishing Company.  ISBN 978 90 272 0359 5.  10.  s 177 - 199
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Semantic prosody in a cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English.  ISSN 1797-4453.  13
• 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), s 23- 42
• Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Introduction, In Hilde Hasselgård; Jarle Ebeling & Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (ed.),  Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis.  John Benjamins Publishing Company.  ISBN 978 90 272 0363 2.  Introduction.  s 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.  s 377- 388
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2012). Textual reduction in translated dialogue in film versus literary fiction. Nordic Journal of English Studies.  ISSN 1654-6970.  11(3), s 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.  ISSN 0921-5034.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2011). Recurrent word-combinations in English student essays. Nordic Journal of English Studies.  ISSN 1654-6970.  10(1), s 49- 76
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2009). Oslo Interactive English: Corpus-driven exercises on the Web, In Karin Aijmer (ed.),  Corpora and Language Teaching.  John Benjamins Publishing Company.  ISBN 978-90-272-2307-4.  2.  s 67 - 82
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2009). On-campus teaching and off-campus online self-study, In Susanne Anette Kjekshus Koch (ed.),  Ringer i vann. Lenge leve fleksibel læring ved Universitetet i Oslo.  Fleksibel læring, UiO.  ISBN 978-82-997407-3-9.  Complementing forms of learning.  s 87 - 100
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2007). I think in Portuguese. Ilha do desterro.  ISSN 0101-4846.  (52), s 103- 126
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Heuboeck, Alois (2007). Encoding document information in a corpus of student writing: the British Academic Written English corpus. Corpora.  ISSN 1749-5032.  2(2), s 241- 256
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2006). Trivial Corpus Pursuit: An online game that facilitates autonomous learning, In Susanne Anette Kjekshus Koch (ed.),  Ringer i vann. Fleksibel læring - Kvalitetsreformen i praksis.  Fleksibel læring, Universitetet i Oslo.  ISBN 978-82-997407-0-8.  7.  s 93 - 104
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2006). Oslo Interactive English – om bruk av tekstkorpora i språkundervisning. Tidsskrift for Universiteternes efter- og videreuddannelse.  ISSN 1603-5518.  (7) Vis sammendrag

  Artikkelen beskriver et nettbasert verktøy for korpusbasert språklæring, Oslo Interactive English, som har blitt utviklet ved Universitetet i Oslo. Opplegget består hovedsakelig av et engelskspråklig korpus og et bredt utvalg av interaktive språkoppgaver som på ulike måter utfordrer studentene til å ta korpuset i bruk. Hensikten er å få til både en aktiv form for språklæring og en innføring i korpusbruk til oppslag og til språkforskning. Målgruppen for Oslo Interactive English er begynnerstudenter i engelsk, som foreløpig bruker det som supplement til den øvrige undervisningen i engelsk språk.

• Nesi, Hilary; Gardner, Sheena; Forsyth, Richard; Hindle, Dawn; Wickens, Paul; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Leedham, Maria; Thompson, Paul & Heuboeck, Alois (2005). Towards the compilation of a corpus of assessed student writing: An account of work in progress. Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series.  ISSN 1747-9398.  1(1)
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2004). Corpus-based contrastive studies: a revival of linguistic relativity?. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0800-3076.  22(2), s 195- 215
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Aijmer, Karin & Vannebo, Kjell Ivar (2004). Signe Oksefjell Ebeling: The Norwegian verbs bli and få and their correspondences in English. A corpus-based contrastive study Dr.art.-disputas ved Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand, 27. september 2003. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0800-3076.  (Årg. 22, h. 1), s 25-70
• Oksefjell, Signe (1999). A description of the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus: Compilation and further developments. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.  ISSN 1384-6655.  04:02, s 197- 219 Vis sammendrag

  This paper gives an introduction to the most important steps in the process of compiling the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC), which contains 50 original English text extracts with their translations into Norwegian and 50 original Norwegian text extracts with their translations into English, in all about 2.6 million words. Even if the most time-consuming part of the process is to prepare the text extracts for the corpus, much of the focus has also been on the development of software, notably a browser handling parallel texts and an alignment program linking the original and translated versions of the same text. The preparation of the texts themselves includes scanning, proofreading, mark-up, and alignment. Although the ENPC is completed, the ENPC project is still developing, and the most recent extensions will be mentioned in this paper, such as adding more languages, compiling multiple translations (in the same language) of the same text, part-of-speech-tagging, and marking direct speech and thought in the ENPC.

• Santos, Diana & Oksefjell, Signe (1999). Using a parallel corpus to validate independent claims. ?.  2(1), s 115- 130 Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the results from two corpus-based contrastive studies. Both studies offer cross- linguistic claims about the language pair English–Portuguese. We attempt to replicate the studies and check the findings against a different corpus, viz. the English–Portuguese part of the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus, to see whether the regularities observed in the original corpora can be confirmed. After a brief presentation of each study, we describe how we gathered equivalent data, present our findings in the new corpus, and discuss some possible reasons for discrepancies in relation to the earlier studies. The topics investigated are boundary-crossing movement descriptions (after Slobin 1997) and perception verbs (after Santos 1998).

• Ebeling, Jarle & Oksefjell, Signe (1998). On the translation of English there-sentences into Norwegian and Portuguese. Working papers in applied linguistics.  ISSN 0806-7287.  4/1998, s 188- 206
• Johansson, Stig & Oksefjell, Signe (1998). A friend of my mother('s): On the use of genitive vs. common case in postmodifying of-phrases. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.  ISSN 0081-6272.  33, s 153- 164
• Oksefjell, Signe; Santos, Diana & Lima, Vera Lúcia Strube d (1998). Breve panorâmica dos recursos de português computacional mencionados na Web, I:  Anais do III Encontro para o processamento computacional de português escrito e falado (PROPOR'98).  Faculdade de informática, PUCRS.  faglig_kompendium.  s 10

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• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (ed.) (2015). Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-4438-7808-1.  266 s. Vis sammendrag

  This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings, most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. A range of lexicogrammatical aspects of verb constructions are explored throughout the book, including time reference; modality; voice; light verb constructions; non-finite complementation of lexical verbs; posture-verb constructions; semiperiphrastic constructions; and the construction and semantic composition of verbs of putting. All of the contributions consider English in comparison with at least one of the following languages: Czech, German, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. As such, this volume offers a truly multilingual perspective on verb constructions. The diversity of comparisons also highlights the multi-faceted nature of the verb phrase, which seems to have virtually limitless potential for exploration in the fields of tense, aspect, modality, lexical semantics, syntax, and phraseology.

• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2013). Patterns in Contrast. John Benjamins Publishing Company.  ISBN 978-90-272-0364-9.  257 s.
• Hasselgård, Hilde; Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (ed.) (2013). Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis. John Benjamins Publishing Company.  ISBN 978 90 272 0363 2.  291 s.
• Hasselgård, Hilde & Oksefjell, Signe (1999). Out of Corpora: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson. Rodopi, Amsterdam.  ISBN 90-420-0515-7.  362 s.
• Johansson, Stig & Oksefjell, Signe (1998). Corpora and Cross-linguistic Research: Theory, Method, and Case Studies. Rodopi, Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA.  ISBN 90-420-0291-3.  376 s. Vis sammendrag

  In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the development and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora. As Karin Aijmer writes in this book, 'The contrastive or comparative perspective ... makes it possible to dig deeper and to ask new questions about the relationshiop between languages with the aim of sharpening our conceptions of cross-linguistic correspondences and adding to our knowledge of the languages compared.' The papers in this volume are a showcase of the great variety of purposes to which bilingual and multilingual corpora can be put. They do not only lend themselves to descriptive and applied approaches, but are also suitable for theory-oriented studies. The range of linguistic phenomena covered by the various approaches is very wide; the papers focus on fields of research like syntax, discourse, semantics, information structure, lexis, and translation studies. The range of languages studied comprises English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, and Portuguese. In addition to purely linguistic papers, there are contributions on computer programs developed for the compilation and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora.

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• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2019). Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports.
• 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 (2018). An eye for an eye? A multilingual look at the phraseology of eye.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Contrastive phraseology: method and analysis.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Corpus analysis: comparing word sequences across languages.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2018). Korpus som infrastruktur.
• 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 & Ebeling, Jarle (2018). Corpora for contrastive research.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2018). Dialogue vs. narrative in fiction: A cross-linguistic comparison.
• 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), s 1- 4 . doi: 10.15845/bells.v9i1.1518 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Kirk, John M.; Čermáková, Anna; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Ebeling, Jarle; Křen, Michal; Aijmer, Karin; Benko, Vladimír; Garabík, Radovan; Górski, Rafał; Jantunen, Jarmo; Kupietz, Marc; Šimková, Mária; Schmidt, Thomas & Wicher, Oliver (2018). Introducing the International Comparable Corpus.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). The Bidirectional Contrastive Method in theory and practice.
• Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2017). The interfaces between LCR and contrastive analysis. A parallel contrastive experiment.
• Ebeling, Jarle & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2016). A comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2016). A cross-linguistic comparison of recurrent word-combinations in a comparable corpus of English and Norwegian fiction.
• 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.  ISSN 1654-6970.  15(3), s 1- 6
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). Datadrevet grammatikkundervisning.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). The ADJ + enough + resultative that-clause construction: Diachronic development and conditions of use.
• Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2015). The Norwegian component of the VESPA corpus – compilation, annotation and use.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). An eye for an eye? Exploring the cross-linguistic phraseology of eye/øye.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2014). Contrastive phraseology: Method and analysis.
• 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 (2013). Cross-linguistic semantic prosody: The case of "commit", "signs of" and "utterly" and their Norwegian correspondences.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Ebeling, Jarle (2013). A contrastive analysis of downtoners, more or less.
• 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 & Hasselgård, Hilde (2013). Learners’ and native speakers’ use of recurrent word-combinations across disciplines.
• 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, Jarle; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2011). Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2011). VESPA macro tagging.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2011). The VESPA corpus: status report and first explorations.
• Paquot, Magali; Hasselgård, Hilde & Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2011). Writer/reader visibility in learner writing across genres. A comparison of the French and Norwegian components of the ICLE and VESPA learner corpora.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2010). Semantic prosody in a cross-linguistic perspective.
• Paquot, Magali; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Heuboeck, Alois & Valentin, Larry (2010). The VESPA Tagging Manual.
• 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.  ISSN 1502-7694.  8(3), s 208- 214
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2009). Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2008). CALL – A corpus-based course in contrastive analysis and learner language.
• Nesi, Hilary; Gardner, Sheena; Thompson, Paul; Wickens, Paul; Forsyth, Richard; Heuboeck, Alois; Holmes, Jasper; Hindle, Dawn; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell; Leedham, Maria & Alsop, Sian (2008). 'An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education'. Final Report for the ESRC for Project No. RES-000-23-0800.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2003). The Norwegian verbs bli and få and their correspondences in English. Vis sammendrag

  Avhandlingen er en kontrastiv studie av de to norske verbene bli og få og deres semantiske og syntaktiske særegenheter. Verbene kontrasteres med engelske �ekvivalenter�. Analysen er korpusbasert og materialet som ligger til grunn er den skjønnlitterære delen av Engelsk-norsk parallellkorpus (ENPC). Utgangspunktet er norske originaltekster med engelske oversettelser. Et av målene med avhandlingen var å gi en grundig beskrivelse av verbene bli og få på bakgrunn av materialet i ENPC. I tillegg står den kontrastive analysen i fokus og bidrar til å beskrive forholdet, eller de semantiske relasjonene, mellom spesifikke verbale nettverk i de to språkene (bli:være / get:be / få:ha / get:have). Selv om forholdet mellom verbene i utgangspunktet ser ut til å være tilnærmet det samme for begge språk, viser analysen at �ekvivalente� verb oppfører seg forskjellig i engelsk og norsk både når det gjelder semantikk og syntaks. Bruken av aksjonsart og verbenes semantiske roller som teoretisk ramme viser seg å gjøre greie for en del av disse forskjellene. I dette nettverket opptrer bli:get:få:get som typiske inkoative verb, mens være:be:ha:have regnes som statiske. Materialet viser imidlertid at be opptrer som hovedekvivalent til kopula bli (som er klart inkoativt). Selv om be regnes som et statisk verb, er det ikke ukjent at det også opptrer inkoativt, men at det gjør det så vidt hyppig var overraskende. I de fleste tilfellene viser det seg også at når be opptrer inkoativt så finnes det et inkoativt signal i konteksten, som for eksempel et modalverb eller et tidsadverbial. Heller ikke for få finner vi en klart forventet ekvivalent i engelsk; get blir kun brukt i 16% av tilfellene, mens det typisk statiske verbet have er brukt i ca. 11% av oversettelsene. Det viser seg at særlig de statiske norske verbene i dette nettverket er mindre fleksible, både syntaktisk og semantisk, enn sine engelske ekvivalenter. Den kontrastive metoden viser at man ved å studere et språk, eller deler av et språk, gjennom et annet kan bli gjort oppmerksom både på de likheter og forskjeller som finnes, i tillegg til å få ny kunnskap om språkene hver for seg.

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2003). The Norwegian verbs bli and få and their correspondences in English. A corpus-based contrastive study.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2002). "Få" i et norsk-engelsk kontrastivt perspektiv.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2002). Teksterkorpus - en ny type parallellkorpus.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2001). A corpus-based contrastive study - The Norwegian verbs "bli" and "få" and their correspondences in English. Vis sammendrag

  Presentation of PhD project

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2001). "Bli" i et norsk-engelsk kontrastivt perspektiv. Vis sammendrag

  Utgangspunktet for foredraget er det norske verbet bli. Selv om bli inngår i en rekke syntaktiske rammer kan det sies at verbet kun har to grunnbetydninger: inkoativ og kontinuativ. Det jeg ønsker å se litt nærmere på er bl.a. om det finnes en klar sammenheng mellom syntaks og semantikk når det gjelder bruken av bli og hvordan dette står i forhold til bruken av ekvivalente verb i engelsk. Jeg vil prøve å belyse dette ved hjelp av kontrastivt materiale hentet fra engelsk-norsk parallellkorpus.

• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2001). Corpus linguistics - An introduction to corpora and corpus linguistics.
• Oksefjell, Signe (2000). Konstruksjonen 'bli stående (og)' i norsk-engelsk perspektiv.
• Oksefjell, Signe (2000). The Norwegian verbs bli and få and their correspondences in English. A corpus-based contrastive study.
• Oksefjell, Signe; Marrafa, Palmira & Mota, Maria Antónia (2000). "The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus": um corpus paralelo que inclui o português.
• Oksefjell, Signe (2000). The verbs bli and få in a Norwegian-English contrastive perspective.
• Johansson, Stig; Ebeling, Jarle & Oksefjell, Signe (1999). The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus: Manual.
• Santos, Diana & Oksefjell, Signe (1999). An evaluation of the Translation Corpus Aligner with special reference to the language pair English-Portuguese.

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