Cross-linguistic research and corpora

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
4. Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
5. Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
6. Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
7. Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
8. Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
9. Chapter 6. run away! 108
10. Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
11. Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
12. Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
13. Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
14. Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
15. Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
16. Index 235