RT Generic
T1 If-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents : a contrastive corpus-based study
A1 Lastres López, Cristina
K1 Lingüística contrastiva
K1 Sintaxe
K1 Lingua inglesa
K1 Lingua española
AB This investigation aims to fill in this gap by providing a quantitative corpus-basedanalysis of if-clauses in spoken English, Spanish and French. Part I provides a review ofthe literature on if-clauses and their Spanish and French equivalents, in which Englishserves as point of departure and a number of features are isolated as tertiumcomparationis in order to be able to compare and contrast these constructions across thethree languages under analysis. The approach followed is an eclectic one, based onreference grammars and more specific studies on the topic, which broadly can be said toshare a discourse-functional perspective on language description.After eliciting our research questions, as well as the methodology used, Part IIdiscusses the contrastive results obtained from a corpus-based analysis taking into account syntactic, semantic and functional considerations. The data have been extractedfrom the spoken academic components of the International Corpus of English-GreatBritain (ICE-GB) (Nelson, Wallis, & Aarts, 2002), for English; and for Spanish andFrench, on the other hand, from the corresponding sub-corpora of the IntegratedReference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages (C-ORAL-ROM) (Cresti &Moneglia, 2005). The academic register has been chosen as object of analysis because,according to such previous studies as Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad and Finegan(1999 [2000]: 824) and Carter-Thomas and Rowley-Jolivet (2008: 191) if-clauses arefrequent in this particular genre in order to introduce or develop arguments, or to“present information that is generally or habitually the case” (Yule, 1998: 127). Thefindings resulting from this corpus-based investigation enable us to determine whethersuch claims hold true across the three languages under inspection.The study closes with some concluding remarks and presents new venues for research hoping to have raised awareness about the relevance of if-clauses – their implications and applications in language teaching and learning, in particular
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13878
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13878
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2014-2015
DS Minerva
RD 27 abr 2026