Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Developments in Corpus-based ContrastiveLinguistics -- The contributions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 The plain passive NCI and three NCI constructions -- 2.2 A concise and selective history of the evidential NCI -- 3. Problem: Have the English and Dutch NCI always been more than passives? -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 General comments -- 5.2 English -- 5.3 Contrasting English and Dutch -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Semantic analysis of the contingency hedges -- 4. Formal analysis of the contingency hedges -- 5. Onomasiological perspectives on contingency hedges in Dutch: Region, register, function -- 5.1 Region -- 5.2 Register -- 5.3 Function -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Cultural differences in academic discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material and Methods -- 2.1 The corpus -- 2.2 Rhetorical categories in the Methods section -- 2.3 Methods and Analyses -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Quantitative analysis -- 3.2 Qualitative analysis: Linguistic profiles -- 3.3 Translation behaviour -- 4. Discussion and Applications -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Cognitive verbs in context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Cognitive verbs -- 4. Contrastive analysis -- 4.1 Quantitative contrastive analysis -- 4.2 Qualitative analysis -- 4.2.1 I think and je pense in context -- 4.2.2 I believe and je crois in context -- 4.3 Contrastive analysis revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Data sources -- Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses.

1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora -- 3. Head nouns as modality markers -- 3.1 Theoretical background -- 3.2 Semantic and pragmatic arguments -- 3.3 Definitions of modality -- 4. Head nouns and mood selection -- 4.1 Outline -- 4.1.1 English subjunctive -- 4.1.2 French subjunctive -- 4.2 Hypotheses -- 4.3 Data analysis -- 4.3.1 Epistemic nouns favor the indicative -- 4.3.2 Deontic and alethic nouns favor the subjunctive -- 4.3.3 Gradience in modality classes -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Corpora -- Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 2.1 Data selection criteria -- 2.1.1 Full vs. elliptical sentences -- 2.1.2 Negative and positive environments of use -- 2.1.3 Subject specification -- 2.1.4 Stativity vs. non-stativity of complements -- 2.1.5 Adverb/adverbial scope specification -- 3. The expression of modal possibility in Lithuanian -- 4. Findings -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Data sources -- The English-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus (ParaCorpE→LT) -- The Lithuanian-English Parallel Corpus (ParaCorpLT→E) -- Index.