This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research...
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This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applications in computational linguistics and language technology This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applications in computational linguistics and language technology. Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Erich Steiner, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; I Texts - The CroCo resource; 2 Corpus methodology and design; 3 Corpus enrichment, representation, exploitation, and quality control; II Global findings; 4 Generating hypotheses and operationalizations: The example of explicitness/explicitation; 5 A characterization of the resource based on shallow statistics; 6 Heuristic examination of translation shifts; III Case studies; 7 Grammatical shifts in English-German noun phrases; 8 Variation within the grammatical function 'subject' in English-German and German-English translations
9 Cohesion in English and German10 Some syntactic features of nominal coreferring expressions; 11 Register-induced properties of translations; IV Computational applications; 12 Towards a parallel treebank; 13 Applications in computational linguistics; V Generalizations, Conclusions and Outlook; 14 Towards a typology of translation properties; 15 Conclusions and outlook: An empirical perspective on translation studies; References; Index
