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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. I. Texts – The CroCo resource
6. 2 Corpus methodology and design 21
7. 3 Corpus enrichment, representation, exploitation, and quality control 35
8. II. Global findings
9. 4 Generating hypotheses and operationalizations: The example of explicitness/explicitation 55
10. 5 A characterization of the resource based on shallow statistics 71
11. 6 Heuristic examination of translation shifts 91
12. III. Case studies
13. 7 Grammatical shifts in English-German noun phrases 133
14. 8 Variation within the grammatical function ‘subject’ in English-German and German- English translations 147
15. 9 Cohesion in English and German 161
16. 10 Some syntactic features of nominal coreferring expressions 173
17. 11 Register-induced properties of translations 191
18. IV. Computational applications
19. 12 Towards a parallel treebank 213
20. 13 Applications in computational linguistics 229
21. V. Generalizations, Conclusions and Outlook
22. 14 Towards a typology of translation properties 255
23. 15 Conclusions and outlook: An empirical perspective on translation studies 281
24. References 289
25. Index 309