Hope for the future: An analysis of HOPE/HÅP(E) across genres and languages

This article reports on a contrastive study of the cognate nouns and verbs hope håp(e) that investigates their lexico-grammatical conditions use in English vs. Norwegian fiction texts football match reports. The complex dataset consists material from parallel corpus comparable An interesting finding is verb outnumbers noun texts, whereas both languages. Moreover, analysis lemmas suggests they have similar potential but with slightly different preferences, across genres It also suggested are more consistently used negative contexts than ones. Finally, method combining data two types corpora proved fruitful, as results become robust.