Contrastive linguistics like other linguistic disciplines is becoming more and more data oriented relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. Corpus studies in contrastive linguistics benjamins current topics author mediactsnetorg johanna weiss 2021 02 22 12 50 37 subject corpus studies in contrastive linguistics benjamins current topics keywords corpusstudiesincontrastivelinguisticsbenjaminscurrenttopics created date 2 22 2021 125037 pm. Corpus studies in contrastive linguistics benjamins current topics author wikictsnetorg birgit dietrich 2021 02 21 08 09 04 subject corpus studies in contrastive linguistics benjamins current topics keywords corpusstudiesincontrastivelinguisticsbenjaminscurrenttopics created date 2 21 2021 80904 am. Some glimpses are offered of recent developments and current trends in the field including the widening scope of corpus based contrastive analysis concerning language pairs as well as the kinds of topics studied and the methods used. Contrastive linguistics like other linguistic disciplines is becoming more and more data oriented relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages