Stig Johansson’s research while affiliated with University of Oslo and other places

The Oslo Multilingual Corpus (OMC) is a collection of electronic text corpora comprising original texts and translations in several languages: English-Norwegian, German-Norwegian, French-Norwegian, English-German-Norwegian, Norwegian-English-German-French, etc. The OMC provides unique research material for use in contrastive studies and translation studies, as well as in theoretical and applied linguistics. The study reveals what is general and what is language specific and is therefore important both for the understanding of language in general and for the study of the individual languages compared. Current work on the OMC includes: studies of lexis, modality, coordination vs. subordination, explicit vs. implicit information, discourse markers. In this chapter I will give examples from some of these areas.