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Since the beginning of her career, Professor Sabine De Knop has been doing research within the frameworks of Cognitive and Contrastive Linguistics and has mainly distinguished herself in three research areas: Language & Cognition, Construction Grammar and Applied linguistics. This volume brings together a range of contributions which open up new perspectives on these three topics, either within one language or from a contrastive perspective. They are written by linguists who have worked with Professor Sabine De Knop at some point in her career. The papers propose new theoretical and empirical insights as well as innovative pedagogical practices in the fields of language and proficiency. Professorin Sabine De Knop arbeitet seit Beginn ihrer Karriere im Bereich der kognitiven und kontrastiven Linguistik und zeichnet sich vor allem in drei Forschungsbereichen aus: Sprache & Kognition, Konstruktionsgrammatik und Angewandte Linguistik & Fremdsprachendidaktik. Diese Festschrift besteht aus einer Reihe von Beiträgen, die sich mit einer oder mehreren Sprachen befassen und ein neues Licht auf diese drei Themen werfen. Die Beiträge stammen von SprachwissenschaftlerInnen, die im Laufe ihrer Karriere mit Professorin Sabine De Knop zusammengearbeitet haben, und diskutieren sowohl theoretische und empirische Erkenntnisse als auch innovative pädagogische Ansätze in der Fremdsprachendidaktik.

1. Introduction This paper discusses Ágel and Höllein’s (2021) proposals regarding the status of semantic roles as well as their relevance for the syntax-semantics interface in German. On their view, a specific restricted list of semantic roles can be used to model the meaning side of complex linguistic signs, so-called “Satzbauplanzeichen” (‘clause pattern signs’, lit. ‘signs of sentence-building plans’, a type of complex linguistic sign), which are assumed to be completely abstract signs th...

This paper discusses the boundaries of Frame Semantics for multilingual lexicon development. This is a contrastive study of verbs of judgment in English and Brazilian Portuguese using the parallel corpus COMPARA. The contrastive analysis of four lexical units, to accuse, to blame, to criticize and to praise places emphasis on points to be developed in order to create multilingual frame-based databases that are able to describe lexical meaning more broadly. The discussion of translation equivalents is important not only for translation studies, but also for multilingual lexicon development. Finding a proper translation equivalent is the fi rst step in the development of multilingual resources. This paper explores the complex meaning networks existing between languages when they are compared.Key words: Frame Semantics, verbs of judgment, contrastive linguistics. Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir os limites da Semântica de Frames na construção de léxicos multilíngues. Trata-se de um estudo contrastivo dos verbos de julgamento em inglês e português, variante brasileira, utilizando o COMPARA como corpus paralelo. Por meio de análise contrastiva de quatro verbos de julgamentos em inglês, to accuse, to blame, to criticize e to praise, abordam-se os pontos que podem ser desenvolvidos para a criação de bases de dados multilíngues que tenham como base teórica a Semântica de Frames, possibilitando uma melhor descrição do signifi cado lexical. A discussão acerca dos equivalentes de tradução, tradicionalmente abordada pelos estudos de tradução, é importante também para o desenvolvimento de recursos multilíngues, uma vez que o primeiro passo para o desenvolvimento desses recursos é, justamente, encontrar o equivalente de tradução apropriado. Assim, este estudo busca explorar as complexas redes de signifi cados existentes entre as línguas quando comparadas.Palavras-chave: Semântica de Frames, verbos de julgamento, linguística contrastiva.

1. The study of Germanic heritage languages in the Americas (by Johannessen, Janne Bondi) 2. Part I. Acquisition and attrition 3. Word Order Variation in Norwegian Possessive Constructions: Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition (by Westergaard, Marit) 4. Attrition in an American Norwegian Heritage Language Speaker (by Johannessen, Janne Bondi) 5. Reexamining Icelandic as a Heritage Language in North America (by Arnbjornsdottir, Birna) 6. Part II. Phonetic and phonological change 7. Heritage Language Obstruent Phonetics and Phonology: American Norwegian and Norwegian-American English (by Allen, Brent) 8. The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German (by Pierce, Marc) 9. Part III. (Morpho-)syntactic and pragmatic change 10. Functional Convergence and Extension in Contact: Syntactic and Semantic Attributes of the Progressive Aspect in Pennsylvania Dutch (by Brown, Joshua R.) 11. Hybrid Verb Forms in American Norwegian and the Analysis of the Syntactic Relation between the Verb and its Tense (by Afarli, Tor A.) 12. Discourse Markers in the Narratives of New York Hasidim: More V2 Attrition (by Kahan Newman, Zelda) 13. Part IV. Lexical change 14. Maintaining a Multilingual Repertoire: Lexical Change in American Norwegian (by Annear, Lucas) 15. How Synagogues Became Shuls: The Boomerang Effect in Yiddish-Influenced English, 1895-2010 (by Benor, Sarah Bunin) 16. Phonological Non-integration of Lexical Borrowings in Wisconsin West Frisian (by Ehresmann, Todd) 17. Borrowing Modal Elements into American Norwegian: The Case of suppose(d) (by Eide, Kristin Melum) 18. Part V. Variation and real-time change 19. Changes in a Norwegian Dialect in America (by Hjelde, Arnstein) 20. On Two Myths of the Norwegian Language in America: Is it Old-Fashioned? Is it Approaching the Written Bokmal Standard? (by Johannessen, Janne Bondi) 21. Coon Valley Norwegians Meet Norwegians from Norway: Language, Culture and Identity among Heritage Language Speakers in the U. S. (by Golden, Anne) 22. Variation and Change in American Swedish (by Larsson, Ida) 23. On the Decrease of Language Norms in a Disintegrating Language (by Smits, Caroline) 24. Index of languages and dialects 25. Index of authors 26. Index of subjects