RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Viberg, Åke YR 1999 T1 The Polysemous Cognates Swedish gå and English go: Universal and language-specific characteristics JF Languages in Contrast VO 2 IS 1 SP 87 OP 113 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.2.1.06vib PB John Benjamins SN 1387-6759, AB In spite of the fact that Swedish gå and English go are historically rather closely related in a transparent way, both verbs are translated by their etymological counterpart only in around one third of the cases, as evidenced from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. The article compares the patterns of polysemy formed by the major senses of the two cognates in each language against the background of some typological studies, UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lic.2.1.06vib