LINGUIST List 15.2013

Wed Jul 7 2004

Books: Corpus Linguistics: Santos

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1. E.van.Broekhuizen, Translation-based corpus studies: Santos

Title: Translation-based corpus studies.
Subtitle: Contrasting English and Portuguese tense and aspect systems.
Series Title: Language and Computers Vol. 50

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/

Author: Diana Santos

Hardback: ISBN: 9042017511, Pages: XII, 173 pp., Price: Europe EURO 44

			
Abstract:

This book presents a model for describing translation performance as a
basis for contrastive linguistics, in the realm of tense and
aspect. It is based on extensive corpus studies investigating the
differences between English and Portuguese using authentic
translations in the two directions. In method and substance, the book
features several original claims, trying to achieve a balance between
theoretical issues and the presentation of concrete translation
data. In addition, it deals with computational applications of
parallel corpora. "Translation-based corpus studies" should thus be
appropriate for translator education, and for introducing contrastive
semantics and the methodology of corpus linguistics to students of
linguistics and computer science. Researchers in tense and aspect,
translation, and corpus linguistics are, nevertheless, the book's
primary audience.

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Parallel corpora and contrastive studies 
3 Tense, aspect, and semantics
4 The translation network
5 Corpus studies
6 Language engineering, evaluation and applications
References


Lingfield(s):	Computational Linguistics
		General Linguistics
		Semantics
		Text/Corpus Linguistics
		Translation

Subject Language(s):	English (Language Code: ENG)
			Portuguese (Language Code: POR)
		
Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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