"This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of mutlilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals, multilingual socities or multilingual communication. The individual contributions are thus concerned with a variety of spoken and written corpora ranging from learner and attrition corpora, language contact corpora and interpreting corpora to comparable and parallel corpora. The overarching aim of the volume is first to take stock of the variety of existing multilingual corpora, documenting possible corpus designs and uses, second to discuss methodological and technological challenges in the creation and analysis of multilingual corpora, and third to provide examples of linguistic analyses that were carried out on the basis of multilingual corpora"--Back cover.

The LeaP corpus: A multilingual corpus of spoken learner German and learner English / Ulrike Gut -- Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German / Hanna Hedeland and Thomas Schmidt -- Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus: towards evaluating meaning in context / Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers -- The ALeSKo learner corpus: Design -- annotation -- quantitative analyses / Heike Zinsmeister and Margit Breckle -- Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children / Marta Saceda Ulloa, Conxita Lleó and Izarbe García Sánchez -- Monolingual and bilingual phonoprosodic corpora of child German and child Spanish / Conxita Lleó -- Pragmatic corpus analysis, exemplified by Turkish-German bilingual and monolingual data / Annette Herkenrath and Jochen Rehbein -- Corpus of Polish spoken in German: Collecting and analysing written [and] spoken data for investigating contact-induced change / Agnieszka Czachór -- The HABLA-corpus (German-French and German-Italian) / Tanja Kupisch, Dagmar Barton, Giulia Bianchi, and Ilse Stangen -- The Hamburg corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCHSpa) / Christoph Gabriel -- Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? Evidence from corpus analysis / Karoline Kühl -- Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) / Ariadna Benet, Susana Cortés and Conxita Lleó -- Researching the intelligibility of a (German) dialect / Magalena Putz -- Annotating ambiguity: insights from a corpus-based study on syntactic change in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder -- Sharing community interpreting corpora: a pilot study / Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer, Bernd Meyer and Thomas Schmidt -- CoSi -- a corpus of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting / Juliane House, Bernd Meyer and Thomas Schmidt -- The corpus "interpreting in hospitals": possible applications for research and communication training / Kristin Bührig, Ortrun Kliche, Bernd Meyer and Birte Pawlack -- The GeWiss corpus: comparing spoken academic German, English and Polish / Christian Fandrych, Cordula Meißner and Adriana Slavcheva -- Korpus C4: a distributed corpus of German varieties / Henrik Dittmann, Matej Ďurčo, Alexander Geyken, Tobias Roth and Kai Zimmer -- Treebanks in translation studies: the CroCo dependency treebank / Oliver Čulo and Silvia Hansen-Schirra -- Multilingual phonological corpus analysis: the tools behind the PhonBank Project / Yvan Rose -- Finding the balance between strict defaults and total openness: collecting and managing metadata for spoken language corpora with the EXMARaLDA corpus manager / Kai Wörner.