The use of parallel and comparable corpora in language study

Xiao, Richard (2003) The use of parallel and comparable corpora in language study. English Education in China, 2003 (1).

Abstract

The construction and exploitation of parallel and comparable corpora have recently been a focus in corpus linguistics. This paper explores the potential value of multilingual corpora of these two types to language study, on the basis of which a case study is presented to contrast aspect marking in Chinese and British/American English.