scholarly journals TELLING in English, Norwegian and French: A three-way contrast

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Thomas Egan
Keyword(s):  
Double Object ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
Direct Objects

This paper presents the results of a study of double object constructions containing the cognate verbs English tell and Norwegian fortelle, based on data from the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The results show that there is a certain degree of correspondence between the two verbs in constructions with nominal direct objects, with less mutual correspondence in constructions with finite clausal objects, very little correspondence in constructions with objects in the form of direct speech, and none whatsoever in the case of non-finite clausal objects, which only occur with tell. The paper then expands the topic to include tell predications in French. The data were retrieved from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. It transpires that the form of French translations of Norwegian expressions are more similar, at least for some constructions, to the Norwegian originals than are their English counterparts.

scholarly journals Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ruano
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Novel ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

In this article, speech verbs in Dickens’sHard Times(1854) and their translation into Spanish are analyzed. Apart from their basic function of introducing speech, these verbs can also contribute to characterization. The regular occurrence of a particular speech verb to report the direct speech of a particular character helps to create a fictional personality. Given the important role they may play, the rendering of such verbs in four Spanish versions of this novel is assessed. To do so, a corpus-based methodology has been employed. A concordancing software was used to retrieve speech verbs from the original novel, allowing their close analysis in context. Then, using an aligned parallel corpus containing the four versions, a comparison was carried out to see how they have been rendered. Evidence is provided that none of the four translations entirely preserves the characterizing value of the verbs, which may affect the way readers form impressions of characters in their minds. The use of this corpus metholodogy is thus seen to contribute to the field of literary translation studies.

scholarly journals COVID-19 recommender system based on an annotated multilingual corpus

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. e24
Author(s):  
Márcia Barros ◽  
Pedro Ruas ◽  
Diana Sousa ◽  
Ali Haider Bangash ◽  
Francisco M. Couto
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Incoming Information ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

Tracking the most recent advances in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)‒related research is essential, given the disease's novelty and its impact on society. However, with the publication pace speeding up, researchers and clinicians require automatic approaches to keep up with the incoming information regarding this disease. A solution to this problem requires the development of text mining pipelines; the efficiency of which strongly depends on the availability of curated corpora. However, there is a lack of COVID-19‒related corpora, even more, if considering other languages besides English. This project's main contribution was the annotation of a multilingual parallel corpus and the generation of a recommendation dataset (EN-PT and EN-ES) regarding relevant entities, their relations, and recommendation, providing this resource to the community to improve the text mining research on COVID-19‒related literature. This work was developed during the 7th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH7).

scholarly journals Binding German (In)direct Objects: Spell-Out Strategies for Disambiguation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Nicholas Twiner ◽  
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Direct Object ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Double Object ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Binding Data ◽  
Acceptability Rating ◽  
Canonical Surface ◽  
Direct Objects ◽  
Case Licensing ◽  
Idiomatic Meaning

Despite Grewendorf’s (1988) well-known German binding data with the double-object verb zeigen ‘show’, which suggests that the direct object (DO) is generated higher than the indirect object (IO), this paper argues for the canonical surface order of IO>DO as base order. Highlighting the exceptional status of Grewendorf's examples, building on Featherston & Sternefeld’s (2003) quantitative acceptability rating study, and exploiting the fact that zeigen can also be used as inherently reflexive with idiomatic meaning, and we appeal to Bruening's (2010) theory of idiom formation as well as the Encyclopedia within Distributed Morphology (Marantz 1997, Embick & Noyer 2007) and propose a flexible Spell-Out mechanism within a derivational approach to binding (e.g. Hornstein 2001 and Zwart 2002) that can override narrow syntactic case licensing by realizing nominals with different morphological case.

Swedish gärna and German gern(e) and their English correspondences

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259
Author(s):  
Karin Aijmer ◽  
Bengt Altenberg
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Common Function

The Swedish adverb gärna, related to German gern(e), has no obvious equivalent in English. To explore this cross-linguistic phenomenon the English correspondences of gärna are examined on the basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, a bidirectional translation corpus. The study shows that gärna has a wide range of English correspondences (translations as well as sources), representing a variety of grammatical categories (verb, adjective, adverb, noun, etc). In addition, the English texts contain a large number of omissions and unidentifiable sources (zero). The most common function of gärna is to express willingness or readiness on the part of the subject, but in the absence of a volitional controller it can also indicate a habitual tendency and even convey implications such as reluctance. It is also used in speech acts expressing offers, promises and requests and in responses to such speech acts. To compare the Swedish adverb with its German cognate gern(e) a similar contrastive study of the English correspondences of this adverb was made on the basis of the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. The studies clearly demonstrate the rich multifunctionality of the two adverbs and the advantages of using bidirectional parallel corpora in contrastive research.

Case functions

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-175
Author(s):  
D. Gary Miller
Keyword(s):  
Left Periphery ◽  
Double Object ◽  
Direct Objects ◽  
Secondary Predicates ◽  
Special Case

Nominative is the case of most subjects but not all subjects are nominative. So-called quirky subjects (as in dative absolutes) serve as binders for anaphors. There is no special case for topics, which are generally indicated by movement of some constituent to the left periphery. Although the vocative was largely lost as a morphological category, it remained syntactically distinct. The accusative is used for direct objects, cognate objects, secondary predicates, perlatives, and allatives. The genitive is plurifunctional. Adverbal and partitive genitives pattern together, as do adnominal and relational. The polyfunctional dative syncretizes the Indo-European dative, locative, ablative, and instrumental. Verbs with oblique case complements generally passivize with nominative subjects, but with double object verbs, the oblique case remains in passive structures.

A Description of the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe Oksefjell
Keyword(s):  
English Text ◽  
Alignment Program ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Part Of Speech Tagging ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Speech Tagging ◽  
Parallel Texts ◽  
Multiple Translations

This paper gives an introduction to the most important steps in the process of compiling the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC), which contains 50 original English text extracts with their translations into Norwegian and 50 original Norwegian text extracts with their translations into English, in all about 2.6 million words. Even if the most time-consuming part of the process is to prepare the text extracts for the corpus, much of the focus has also been on the development of software, notably a browser handling parallel texts and an alignment program linking the original and translated versions of the same text. The preparation of the texts themselves includes scanning, proofreading, mark-up, and alignment. Although the ENPC is completed, the ENPC project is still developing, and the most recent extensions will be mentioned in this paper, such as adding more languages, compiling multiple translations (in the same language) of the same text, part-of-speech-tagging, and marking direct speech and thought in the ENPC.

scholarly journals Korpusbasert undervisning i fremmedspråkene: La elevens nysgjerrighet sette dagsorden

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Margrete Dyvik Cardona ◽  
Anders Alvsåker Didriksen ◽  
Anje Müller Gjesdal
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

Korpus er en type digitale språkressurser (maskinlesbare tekstsamlinger) som er mye brukt i moderne lingvistikk som empirisk støtte for studiet av ulike språklige fenomener. Korpus kan med hell brukes i fremmedspråkundervisningen, men er frem til nå ikke i tilstrekkelig grad blitt tatt i bruk i norsk skole og høyere utdanning. I denne artikkelen gir vi en gjennomgang av eksisterende forskningslitteratur på feltet, med hovedvekt på bidrag fra det angloamerikanske språkområdet. Deretter går vi gjennom to korpus som er tilgjengelige for norske brukere, Norwegian-Spanish Parallel Corpus og Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Vi viser hvordan disse korpusene kan brukes i undervisningen av ulike språklige fenomener, fra vokabular til sosiolingvistiske fenomener. På grunnlag av eksisterende forskning på pedagogiske applikasjoner av korpus samt våre egne forslag til undervisningsopplegg er det grunn til å tro at bruk av korpus vil kunne være et verdifullt bidrag til fremmedspråkundervisningen i norske klasserom. Likevel finnes visse utfordringer som hindrer at korpus tas i bruk. Både mangel på tid, gruppestørrelser og teknologiske hindre kan stå i veien. Bruk av korpus i fremtidens klasserom er også nært knyttet til ulike trender, både innenfor teknologi og forskning. For det først blir datateknologi stadig mer tilgjengelig, parallelt med at elevenes og studentenes digitale kompetanse øker. Dette er fenomener som begge skulle tilsi økt bruk av korpus. Videre er det en sterk bevegelse for å åpne opp tilgang til forskningsdata og –ressurser (Open Access) og denne bølgen kan også brukes til å åpne opp forskningsressurser, herunder korpus, for læringsformål. Til syvende og sist er spørsmålet om bruk av korpus i klasserommet imidlertid avhengig av en tettere dialog mellom lærere og korpuslingvister, både i lærerutdanningen så vel som gjennom faglig oppdatering underveis i yrkeslivet.

scholarly journals ParCourE: A Parallel Corpus Explorer for a Massively Multilingual Corpus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayyoob ImaniGooghari ◽  
Masoud Jalili Sabet ◽  
Philipp Dufter ◽  
Michael Cysou ◽  
Hinrich Schütze
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Multilingual Corpus

scholarly journals Application of multilingual corpus in contrastive studies (on the example of the Bulgarian-Polish-Lithuanian parallel corpus)

2015 ◽  
pp. 217-239
Author(s):  
Ludmila Dimitrova ◽  
Violetta Koseska-Toszewa ◽  
Danuta Roszko ◽  
Roman Roszko
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Corpus Annotation ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Application of multilingual corpus in contrastive studies (on the example of the Bulgarian-Polish-Lithuanian parallel corpus)In this paper we present applications of a trilingual corpus in language research. Comparative and contrastive studies of Polish and Bulgarian as well as Polish and Lithuanian have been already conducted, but up to the best of our knowledge no such studies exist for Bulgarian and Lithuanian. On the one hand, it is interesting to note that two Slavic languages are compared to a Baltic language (Lithuanian). On the other hand, the three languages are marginally present in the EU because of the later ascension of the three countries to the EU. The paper shortly describes the first electronic Bulgarian–Polish–Lithuanian experimental corpus, currently under development only for research. We also focus our attention on the morphosyntactic annotation of the parallel trilingual corpus according to the Corpus Encoding Standard: we present a review of the Part-of-Speech (POS) classification of the participle in the three languages – Bulgarian, Polish, and Lithuanian in comparison to another POS, the adjective. We briefly discuss tagsets for corpus annotation from the point of view of possible unification in the future with some examples.

scholarly journals A multilingual corpus study of the competition between past and perfect in narrative discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
MARTIJN VAN DER KLIS ◽  
BERT LE BRUYN ◽  
HENRIËTTE DE SWART
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Present Perfect ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
British English ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Multilingual Corpus ◽  
French Novel ◽  
Crosslinguistic Variation ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

The western European present perfect is subject to substantial crosslinguistic variation. The literature, however, focuses on individual languages or on comparisons of a restricted number of languages. We piece together the puzzle and do so in a data-driven way by comparing the use of the present perfect through a parallel corpus based on the French novel L’Étranger and its translations in Italian, German, Dutch, European Spanish, British English, and Modern Greek. We introduce and showcase Translation Mining, a software suite combining a parallel corpus database with annotation and analysis tools. Translation Mining allows us to generate descriptive statistics of tense use across languages but also to visualize variation through its multidimensional scaling component and to link the variation we find to the underlying data through its integrated setup. We confirm that the present perfect competes with the past and we reveal the fine-grained scalar nature of the variation. To complete the puzzle, we ascertain the dimensions of variation, ranging from lexical and compositional semantics to dynamic semantics and pragmatics.1

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