1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of figures; 4. List of tables; 5. List of abbreviations; 6. 1. The case for corpora in contrastive studies; 7. 2. Building a multilingual corpus; 8. 3. Using a multilingual corpus; 9. 4. Contrasting nouns: times of the day, mind, person, thing, fact; 10. 5. Loving and hating in English and Norwegian; 11. 6. Spending time in English, Norwegian and German; 12. 7. The English verb seem and its correspondences in Norwegian: What seems to be the problem?; 13. 8. Some aspects of usuality in English and Norwegian; 14. 9. In search of the missing not: Some notes on negation in English and Norwegian; 15. 10. The generic person in English, German, and Norwegian; 16. 11. Why change the subject? On changes in subject selection in translation from English into Norwegian; 17. 12. Sentence openings in English and Norwegian; 18. 13. The semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian concessive marker likevel: Evidence from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (by Thorstein Fretheim and Stig Johansson); 19. 14. How well can well be translated? On the English discourse particle well and its correspondences in Norwegian and German; 20. 15. Problems and prospects; 21. References; 22. Appendix: List of corpus texts; 23. Author index; 24. Subject index

Johansson shows that multilingual corpora and the findings of multilingual corpus research are of great value to constrastive studies and beyond, and this book is a fascinating contribution to the contrastive analysis of languages and languages in general.