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“I guess anyone would do that wouldn’t they?” “我想任何人都会这么做，不是吗?”

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-27 DOI: 10.1075/lic.19025.joh

Stine Hulleberg Johansen

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Questions in English and Swedish fiction texts 英语和瑞典语小说文本中的问题

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.00017.axe

K. Axelsson

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Placement patterns of English and French conjunctive adjuncts of contrast 英、法对比连词的位置模式

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.00018.dup

Maïté Dupont

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Corpus-based contrastive studies 基于语料库的对比研究

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.00015.has

H. Hasselgård

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Dialogue vs. narrative in fiction 小说中的对话与叙事

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.00019.oks

S. O. Ebeling, J. Ebeling

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Differences in the lexical variation of reporting verbs in French, English and Czech fiction and their impact on translation 法语、英语和捷克语小说中转述动词词汇变异的差异及其对翻译的影响

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.00016.nad

Olga Nádvorníková

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The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies 比较语料库与平行语料库在跨语言研究中的互补作用

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1075/lic.20.2

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The copular subschema[become/devenir + past participle]in English and French 英语和法语中常用的子模式[成为/devenir +过去分词]

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Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-08-19 DOI: 10.1075/lic.19013.van

Niek Van Wettere

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Denominal verb formationin English and Modern Greek 英语和现代希腊语中名动词的构成

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