@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/lic.2.1.06vib, author = "Viberg, Åke", title = "The Polysemous Cognates Swedish gå and English go: Universal and language-specific characteristics", journal= "Languages in Contrast", year = "1999", volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "87-113", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.2.1.06vib", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lic.2.1.06vib", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1387-6759", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "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", }