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Author Hansen-Schirra, Silvia, 1975-

Title Cross-linguistic corpora for the study of translations : insights from the language pair English-German / Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stella Neumann, Erich Steiner ; in collaboration with Oliver Culo [and others].

Publication Info. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Text, translation, computational processing ; v. 11
Text, translation, computational processing ; 11.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Translating and interpreting.
Translating and interpreting.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Neumann, Stella, 1968- co-author.
Steiner, Erich, co-author.
Other Form: Print version: 9783110260298 3110260298
ISBN 3110260328 (electronic book)
9783110260328 (electronic book)
9783110260298
3110260298