Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reflections on the use of data and methods in contrastive linguistics -- A roadmap towards determining the universal status of semantic frames -- Quantitative methods for corpus-based contrastive linguistics -- On the usefulness of comparable and parallel corpora for contrastive linguistics. Testing the semantic stability hypothesis -- Is German more nominal than English? Evidence from a translation corpus -- Using data from simultaneous interpreting in contrastive linguistics -- WH-ever in German, Dutch and English: a contrastive study showcasing the ConverGENTiecorpus -- Comparing corrective constructions: Contrastive negation in parallel and monolingual data -- Contrasting semantic fields across languages