Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French

The present study investigates the Norwegian additive connective ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French. The investigation is based on material from parallel corpora with the language pairs Norwegian-English and Norwegian-French. Since neither English nor French has any clearly fav...

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Main Author: Hilde Hasselgård
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2014-07-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/691
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spelling doaj-4b1934e582cc4f4e8752d2217ae731f62020-11-25T03:53:41ZengUniversity of OsloOslo Studies in Language1890-96392014-07-016110.5617/osla.691Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and FrenchHilde Hasselgård0University of OsloThe present study investigates the Norwegian additive connective ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French. The investigation is based on material from parallel corpora with the language pairs Norwegian-English and Norwegian-French. Since neither English nor French has any clearly favoured counterpart to ‘dessuten’, the wide range of correspondences lends itself to a study of the semantic field of additive conjunction. The individual correspondences of ‘dessuten’ differ as regards the degree of emphasis given to the conjunction and as to the relative weighting of the conjoined segments. The position of ‘dessuten’ is found to have an impact on the choice of overt vs. zero correspondence and also on the choice of lexical correspondence. By means of the semantic mirror method a semantic map of additive conjunction, as seen from the perspective of ‘dessuten’, is outlined.https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/691
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Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
Oslo Studies in Language
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title Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
title_short Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
title_full Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
title_fullStr Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
title_full_unstemmed Additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French
title_sort additive conjunction across languages: ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in english and french
publisher University of Oslo
series Oslo Studies in Language
issn 1890-9639
publishDate 2014-07-01
description The present study investigates the Norwegian additive connective ‘dessuten’ and its correspondences in English and French. The investigation is based on material from parallel corpora with the language pairs Norwegian-English and Norwegian-French. Since neither English nor French has any clearly favoured counterpart to ‘dessuten’, the wide range of correspondences lends itself to a study of the semantic field of additive conjunction. The individual correspondences of ‘dessuten’ differ as regards the degree of emphasis given to the conjunction and as to the relative weighting of the conjoined segments. The position of ‘dessuten’ is found to have an impact on the choice of overt vs. zero correspondence and also on the choice of lexical correspondence. By means of the semantic mirror method a semantic map of additive conjunction, as seen from the perspective of ‘dessuten’, is outlined.
url https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/691
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