Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. This volume includes topics that ranges from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure.

2. List of contributors; 3. Introduction (by Aijmer, Karin); 4. Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora (by Egan, Thomas); 5. Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora: The case of Swedish aka and other vehicle verbs (by Viberg, Ake); 6. A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish (by Rabadan, Rosa); 7. English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 8. A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change (by Beeching, Kate); 9. Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okay (by Stenstrom, Anna-Brita); 10. Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same? (by De Cock, Sylvie); 11. Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries (by Granger, Sylviane); 12. Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences (by Ebeling, Jarle); 13. Cohesive substitution in English and German: A contrastive and corpus-based perspective (by Kunz, Kerstin); 14. The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish (by Herriman, Jennifer); 15. Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: A contrastive corpus-based study (by Lavid, Julia); 16. Author index; 17. Subject index