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A corpus-based study of aspect: still and already + verb phrase constructions into Spanish
This paper explores still and already + verb phrase constructions, their semantics, and the resources Spanish uses to convey their meanings. The aim is to explore some of the ways in which the grammars of the two languages, English and Spanish, encode ...
Rosa Rabadán
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Interpreting Architecture: The ARCHINT Corpus
This article introduces the ARCHINT (Architecture in Interpreting) Corpus, a parallel, bilingual, unidirectional corpus consisting of ten video recorded conference presentations in English, their simultaneous interpretations into Spanish, and their ...
Tamara Cabrera
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A System for Automatic English Text Expansion
We present an automatic text expansion system to generate English sentences, which performs automatic Natural Language Generation (NLG) by combining linguistic rules with statistical approaches.
Silvia Garcia-Mendez +5 more
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The morpho-syntactic configuration auxiliary (have or be) + past participle known as the have-perfect functions as a tense-aspect category in many Western European languages.
Henriette de Swart +3 more
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A Stranger in the Saloon: Lexical Disruption in the English Translation for Euro-Westerns Dubbing
Within the current context of a surge of foreign audiovisual content dubbed into English, the purpose of this article is to analyze how, half a century earlier, a dubbese developed in the translation of Euro-Westerns into English, resulting in a ...
John D. Sanderson
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TESTING OUT TRANSLATION UNIVERSALS IN LEGAL TRANSLATION
Research into ‘translation universals’ in legal translation is a relatively new field, which still needs to be expanded with further empirical studies. The few studies conducted so far fall into two main categories: a) analyses that explore the typical ...
Gianluca Pontrandolfo
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Text corpora are tools having both a long tradition in research and a variety of applications. Of all existing types, this paper focuses specifically on parallel, aligned corpora.
Jorge Leiva Rojo
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VALICO-UD: Treebanking an Italian Learner Corpus in Universal Dependencies
This article describes an ongoing project for the development of a novel Italian treebank in Universal Dependencies format: VALICO-UD. It consists of texts written by Italian L2 learners of different mother tongues (German, French, Spanish and English ...
Elisa Di Nuovo +4 more
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A conceptual approach to the –ING construction: aspects of radiality and subjectification
The –ING construction has a number of uses in the English language and teaching it to speakers of other languages poses some challenges, as learners tend to interpret the construction as a verbal one, in the progressive aspect, which is only one part of
Sandra Aparecida Faria de Almeida +1 more
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Generic uses of the English pronoun one and the Spanish pronoun uno in parliamentary debates
Impersonal pronouns one in English and uno in Spanish are described in the literature as functionally similar, combining two meaning components: first-person orientation and generalization.
Elena L. Vilinbakhova +1 more
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