Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese - McEnery, Tony (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) a Xiao, Richard (University of Lancaster, UK)

This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet distinctly different world languages in the 21st century, on the basis of large matching corpora of authentic spoken and written data in the two languages.