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The present paper presents a study of the meaning potential of the Swedish verb  få  ‘get’ in a contrastive perspective. The meaning potential represents the total set of senses of a word and their relationships. The verb  få  has a complex pattern of polysemy and grammaticalization including lexical as well as modal, aspectual and causative grammatical meanings and the interpretation of  få  in text is based on syntactic, lexical semantic and pragmatic cues. The total set of meanings form a very language-specific pattern. Data consist of close to 1 000 occurrences of  få  in a multilingual parallel corpus consisting of extracts from 10 Swedish original novels and their translations into English, German, French and Finnish. If the meaning ‘come to possess (something concrete)’ is regarded as the prototypical meaning,  få  has rather direct equivalents in English  get , German  bekommen  and  kriegen  and Finnish  saada , whereas French lacks a clear equivalent already in this sense. With respect to most of the other senses (or uses), the meaning potential of  få  is more or less unique in relation to the other languages except for Finnish  saada . The major aim of the present paper is to describe how unique meaning patterns can be expressed in other languages. A study of the translation patterns reveals extensive use of syntactic restructuring to render certain meanings or the use of verbs with very different meaning potentials which overlap only partly with that of  få . The latter applies in particular to the modal meanings and the very language-specific combination of the seemingly contradictory meanings permission and obligation. Not only are verbs with other basic meanings than ‘get, come to possess’ used as translations in the other languages but distinctions between modal meanings are drawn in different ways. The results of the contrastive study are briefly discussed also within a typological framework.

Language-specific meanings in contrast: A corpus-based contrastive study of Swedish få ‘get’