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Basilea, Suiza
L’obiettivo generale di questo contributo è presentare due nuove risorse elettroniche per lo studio dell’italiano contemporaneo: CONTRAST-IT e COMPARE-IT. Si tratta di due corpora comparabili di testi giornalistici allestiti per condurre indagini corpus-based e/o corpus-driven di tipo contrastivo e comparativo (per una caratterizzazione dei termini contrastivo e comparativo). Si tratterà anche, più concretamente, di mostrare le potenzialità euristiche di queste risorse, illustrando alcuni percorsi di ricerca sul lessico e sulle parti del discorso.
The goal of this contribution is to describe two new comparable corpora to investigate contemporary Italian: CONTRAST-IT, a multilingual corpus including five languages (Italian, French, Spanish, German and English), and COMPARE-IT, the first monolingual corpus representing written neo-standard Italian in three countries (Italy, Switzerland and Canada). In the first part of this study, we describe the general design of these two new resources, representative of newspaper language, and compare CONTRAST-IT to similar research tools. In the second part, we present in more details COMPARE-IT by focusing on both quantitative and qualitative aspects related to the most frequently used words in the corpus. The results confirm the high comparability of the data included in COMPARE-IT, while also reflecting differences due to language contact phenomena between Italian and the languages spoken and written in the countries where the newspapers are published. As we point out in the conclusion, many (new) grammatical, textual and pragmatic phenomena can be investigated with CONTRAST-IT and COMPARE-IT, including some understudied phenomena described in this study, which deserve further investigation in particular to throw light on the idea that Italian is a weak bicentric language.
