The aim is to investigate whether (-)ish is employed in the same structures and functions in English and Swedish blog data and to describe the adaptations and changes resulting from borrowing. (-)ish is exceptional because it looks like a suffix but can be taken out of its original context with adjectives and nouns and used as a clitic or an independent word. Based on samples from the two languages it is shown that there are quantitative differences with respect to the uses of (-)ish with different base forms and as a freestanding sentence-final item in the two data sets. The qualitative findings reveal that (-)ish has been borrowed in Swedish as a suffix, a clitic, as a qualifier with hedging function and as a sentence-final pragmatic marker. The change in the position of (-)ish is influenced by the existence of a domestic variant typ (‘sort of’, ‘kind of’) which can be placed more freely in the sentence than the English (-)ish.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse differences in reflexive coding in Slovak, Czech and Polish and to evaluate the factors responsible for using phonologically more or less complex reflexive markers. To address this issue, we looked at preferred reflexive coding strategies in Slovak, Czech, and Polish, relying on data extracted from InterCorp multilingual corpus. The results are then verified by data from monolingual corpora of investigated languages for one semantic group of verbs labelled as ‘Prevarication’ in FrameNet. The results show that semantic frame underlying the meaning of lexical items cannot be the only possible explanation for distribution of reflexive markers but there are also other semantic, syntactic and pragmatic factors playing a pivotal role in reflexive coding strategies, often unique for a given language.
{"title":"Reflexivity patterns in West-Slavic languages","authors":"Martina Ivanová","doi":"10.1075/lic.00039.iva","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00039.iva","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this paper is to analyse differences in reflexive coding in Slovak, Czech and Polish and to evaluate\u0000 the factors responsible for using phonologically more or less complex reflexive markers. To address this issue, we looked at\u0000 preferred reflexive coding strategies in Slovak, Czech, and Polish, relying on data extracted from InterCorp multilingual corpus.\u0000 The results are then verified by data from monolingual corpora of investigated languages for one semantic group of verbs labelled\u0000 as ‘Prevarication’ in FrameNet. The results show that semantic frame underlying the meaning of lexical items cannot be the only\u0000 possible explanation for distribution of reflexive markers but there are also other semantic, syntactic and pragmatic factors\u0000 playing a pivotal role in reflexive coding strategies, often unique for a given language.","PeriodicalId":43502,"journal":{"name":"Languages in Contrast","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141002256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper looks at projection in the discourse of news reports in English and Spanish. The analysis reveals the extent to which projection pervades these texts, not only at clause complex level – the traditional object of study of projection – but also below the clause complex, at clause simple and at group level. The discussion of a number of examples from English and Spanish news reports serves to answer the three research questions guiding this research, which concern (a) the preferred types of projection in news reports, (b) the preferred realizations of the different types of projection in news reports, and (c) the main cross-linguistic similarities and contrasts of projection in news reports. The answers to these issues ultimately contribute to a broader understanding of the concept of projection.
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This study deals with English synthetic compounds ending in -er, such as heartbreaker, time-killer, and bodybuilder, and their Italian equivalents. Synthetic compounds are very productive in Germanic languages (e.g. E. heartbreaker, G. Herzensbrecher, D. hartenbreker), but virtually absent in Romance languages, where various morphological forms and word-formation strategies are used to render the same concepts (cf. It. rubacuori, Sp. rompecorazones, Fr. tombeur). The analysis of English synthetic compounds still remains a controversial topic in morphological accounts, with a lively theoretical debate between two mutually exclusive hypotheses, i.e. whether synthetic compounds have to be analyzed as derivations (i.e. [[heart break] [-er]]) or as compounds (i.e. [[heart] [break-er]]). In word-formation, they are part of transitional morphology, i.e. they have an ambivalent status between derivation and compounding. This study explores a collection of about 100 English synthetic compounds drawn from the English Lexicon Project database and compares them with their possible Italian renditions. The contrastive analysis mainly aims at highlighting differences between the two morphological systems (cf. E. time-killer/It. passatempo). Moreover, the study examines the translation procedures used to render English synthetic compounds in OPUS2 Italian. Corpus-based results confirm that English and Italian display language-specific constructions which may result in mis- or under-translation.
本研究涉及以-er 结尾的英语合成词，如 heartbreaker、time-killer 和 bodybuilder，以及它们在意大利语中的对应词。合成词在日耳曼语中非常多见（如 E. heartbreaker、G. Herzensbrecher、D. hartenbreker），但在罗曼语中几乎不存在，在罗曼语中使用各种形态形式和构词策略来表达相同的概念（参见 It. rubacuori、Sp. rompecorazones、Fr. tombeur）。对英语合成词的分析仍然是形态学中一个有争议的话题，在两种相互排斥的假设之间存在着激烈的理论争论，即合成词是必须作为派生词（即[[heart break] [-er]]）还是作为化合物（即[[heart] [break-er]]）来分析。在构词法中，它们属于过渡形态，即在派生和复合之间处于矛盾地位。本研究从英语词典项目数据库中收集了约 100 个英语合成词，并将它们与意大利语中可能出现的合成词进行了对比。对比分析的主要目的是突出两个词形系统之间的差异（参见 E. time-killer/It.passatempo）。此外，本研究还考察了用 OPUS2 意大利语翻译英语合成化合物时所使用的翻译程序。基于语料库的结果证实，英语和意大利语显示出语言特有的结构，这可能导致误译或少译。
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This paper looks at projection in the discourse of news reports in English and Spanish. The analysis reveals the extent to which projection pervades these texts, not only at clause complex level – the traditional object of study of projection – but also below the clause complex, at clause simple and at group level. The discussion of a number of examples from English and Spanish news reports serves to answer the three research questions guiding this research, which concern (a) the preferred types of projection in news reports, (b) the preferred realizations of the different types of projection in news reports, and (c) the main cross-linguistic similarities and contrasts of projection in news reports. The answers to these issues ultimately contribute to a broader understanding of the concept of projection.
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This study deals with English synthetic compounds ending in -er, such as heartbreaker, time-killer, and bodybuilder, and their Italian equivalents. Synthetic compounds are very productive in Germanic languages (e.g. E. heartbreaker, G. Herzensbrecher, D. hartenbreker), but virtually absent in Romance languages, where various morphological forms and word-formation strategies are used to render the same concepts (cf. It. rubacuori, Sp. rompecorazones, Fr. tombeur). The analysis of English synthetic compounds still remains a controversial topic in morphological accounts, with a lively theoretical debate between two mutually exclusive hypotheses, i.e. whether synthetic compounds have to be analyzed as derivations (i.e. [[heart break] [-er]]) or as compounds (i.e. [[heart] [break-er]]). In word-formation, they are part of transitional morphology, i.e. they have an ambivalent status between derivation and compounding. This study explores a collection of about 100 English synthetic compounds drawn from the English Lexicon Project database and compares them with their possible Italian renditions. The contrastive analysis mainly aims at highlighting differences between the two morphological systems (cf. E. time-killer/It. passatempo). Moreover, the study examines the translation procedures used to render English synthetic compounds in OPUS2 Italian. Corpus-based results confirm that English and Italian display language-specific constructions which may result in mis- or under-translation.
本研究涉及以-er 结尾的英语合成词，如 heartbreaker、time-killer 和 bodybuilder，以及它们在意大利语中的对应词。合成词在日耳曼语中非常多见（如 E. heartbreaker、G. Herzensbrecher、D. hartenbreker），但在罗曼语中几乎不存在，在罗曼语中使用各种形态形式和构词策略来表达相同的概念（参见 It. rubacuori、Sp. rompecorazones、Fr. tombeur）。对英语合成词的分析仍然是形态学中一个有争议的话题，在两种相互排斥的假设之间存在着激烈的理论争论，即合成词是必须作为派生词（即[[heart break] [-er]]）还是作为化合物（即[[heart] [break-er]]）来分析。在构词法中，它们属于过渡形态，即在派生和复合之间处于矛盾地位。本研究从英语词典项目数据库中收集了约 100 个英语合成词，并将它们与意大利语中可能出现的合成词进行了对比。对比分析的主要目的是突出两个词形系统之间的差异（参见 E. time-killer/It.passatempo）。此外，本研究还考察了用 OPUS2 意大利语翻译英语合成化合物时所使用的翻译程序。基于语料库的结果证实，英语和意大利语显示出语言特有的结构，这可能导致误译或少译。
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Differences between verbs of perception in English and French have often been a subject of theoretical conjecture, but seldom studied empirically. Four such verbs (En. hear, see, Fr. entendre, voir) were thus inventoried in a 13.5m-word bidirectional English/French translation corpus. A statistically significant difference between translators and authors was found for hear and entendre. Correlations between source and target texts were statistically significant for all verbs. Quantitative analysis of random samples revealed five regular alternatives to word-for-word translation. Qualitative data support the hypothesis that verbs of perception may follow different “evidential strategies” in English and French. An approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify translators closest to target language norms offers a new model for researchers and translators.
{"title":"Verbs of perception and evidentiality in English/French translation","authors":"Daniel Henkel","doi":"10.1075/lic.00028.hen","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.00028.hen","url":null,"abstract":"Differences between verbs of perception in English and French have often been a subject of theoretical conjecture, but seldom studied empirically. Four such verbs (En. hear, see, Fr. entendre, voir) were thus inventoried in a 13.5m-word bidirectional English/French translation corpus. A statistically significant difference between translators and authors was found for hear and entendre. Correlations between source and target texts were statistically significant for all verbs. Quantitative analysis of random samples revealed five regular alternatives to word-for-word translation. Qualitative data support the hypothesis that verbs of perception may follow different “evidential strategies” in English and French. An approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify translators closest to target language norms offers a new model for researchers and translators.","PeriodicalId":43502,"journal":{"name":"Languages in Contrast","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139241011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper investigates conceptual and phraseological patterns from a cross-linguistic perspective. The focus of attention is on the fluidic motion uses of the highly polysemous verbs run and τρέχω ‘run’ in English and Modern Greek respectively. They are manner of motion verbs denoting the typically human, fast movement on ground and they are frequently cited in the literature on motion event encoding; yet, their extended use to denote motion of liquids is mentioned only in passing. The study thus provides a comprehensive description of that part of the semantic network of the two verbs that relates to fluidic motion (literally and figuratively). The contrastive approach taken combines cognitive semantics (Frame Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory) with a phraseological view of language. Convergences and divergences are identified at a conceptual and phraseological level through a twofold corpus-based study involving comparable monolingual analysis and parallel corpus investigation.
本文从跨语言的角度研究了概念和短语模式。重点是英语和现代希腊语中高度多义的动词 run 和 τρέχω 'run' 的流体运动用法。它们都是运动动词，表示典型的人在地面上的快速运动，在有关运动事件编码的文献中经常被引用；然而，它们在表示液体运动时的扩展用法只是被顺带提及。因此，本研究对这两个动词语义网络中与液体运动（字面意义和比喻意义）相关的部分进行了全面描述。所采用的对比方法结合了认知语义学（框架语义学、概念隐喻和隐喻理论）和语言短语学观点。通过基于语料库的双重研究，包括可比较的单语分析和平行语料库调查，在概念和短语层面确定了趋同和差异。
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Abstract The present study addresses a topic on the crossroads between contrastive linguistics and translation studies as we seek to investigate how the English verbal gerund is used in translated and non-translated English, as well as how it is translated into German and Dutch. Instead of merely analysing frequencies throughout a corpus, we aim to map out usage profiles and translation strategies through a multi-methodological and multifactorial approach, thereby offering a more contextualized approach to the English verbal gerund. On the basis of data from CroCo and DPC, two parallel and comparable corpora for the language pairs English-German and English-Dutch, a set of over 6,000 verbal gerunds was annotated. A hierarchical configural frequency analysis was conducted to uncover different usage profiles or ‘types’ of verbal gerunds. Second, a conditional inference tree and a random forest analysis were modelled to select the best predictors to help distinguish between a nominal or a clausal translation solution. In addition to providing more insight into the status of English verbal gerunds in translation, this paper offers new perspectives on two broader debates in contrastive linguistics and translation studies, viz. the ‘loose-fit’ or ‘tight-fit’ status of constructions and the treatment of unique items respectively.
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