TELLING in English, Norwegian and French: A three-way contrast

This paper presents the results of a study double object constructions containing cognate verbs English tell and Norwegian fortelle, based on data from English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The show that there is certain degree correspondence between two in with nominal direct objects, less mutual finite clausal very little objects form speech, none whatsoever case non-finite which only occur tell. then expands topic to include predications French. were retrieved Oslo Multilingual It transpires French translations expressions are more similar, at least for some constructions, originals than their counterparts.