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Languages are heterogeneous systems including several registers, such as formal, standard and popular. In this paper we consider the denominations of the winds belonging to these three registers in Catalan, Spanish and French. Assuming the principles of Cognitive Linguistics, the [...]

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This presentation article reviews the main landmarks in the history of Contrastive Analysis as a perspective in the study of language that can be included in both Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. After this general introduction to the subject of the volume, the papers are pres[...]

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The aim of this paper is to present a contrastive analysis of reformulation and exemplification markers in Catalan and Spanish, on the one hand, and in English, on the other. The study is based on a corpus of expository prose (mainly academic writing). The analysis shows coincidences [...]

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The contrastive analysis of a corpus of neologisms is an appropriate way to describe and analyse the mechanisms of lexical innovation used to update the lexicon. It also shows the degree of linguistic coincidence and helps make hypotheses on the influence of some languages on others. [...]