Birgit Ahlemeyer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Ahlemeyer plays a role.

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Ahlemeyer, Birgit and Inga Kohlhof 1999 Bridging the Cleft: An analysis of the translation of English it-clefts into German Information Structure in Parallel Texts, Hasselgård, Hilde, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
Using real translation data, this paper examines the facts and reasons underlying the various translations of English it-clefts into German. Corpora of translated English-German texts reveal that only about a third of English it-clefts (or less, depending on text type) are translated with the… read more