Tertium Comparationis in Modern Contrastive Linguistics (Revising Approaches to Teaching)

Teaching Contrastive Linguistics for MT

We discuss a framework for teaching contrastive translation-oriented linguistics to students of machine translation. The framework embodies a classification of crosslinguistic differences and a demonstration of how the neutralization of such differences in abstract representations can make transfer modules simpler. We illustrate by means of examples from a range of languages, and then discuss a...

Contrastive Linguistics and Corpora

Modern approaches to teaching and learning anatomy.

Linguistics in Language Teaching: the Implications for Modern Hebrew

I. TODAY, AS MUCH AS EVER, language teaching theorists and course writers offer a rich array of wares. The audio lingual approach, concerned with the formation of habits, particularly grammatical ones, by inductive pattern drills, competes with cognitive approaches, which aim to develop the four language skills through conscious understanding of structure. Far less concerned with grammar are th...

Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods

Narrowly defined, contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bior multilingual speakers, and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text, oral discourse) is tran...