Sarah Cummins
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah Cummins plays a role.
2008 Louis Gauchat (1866-1942), Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 213–275 | Miscellaneous
2007 Tensed modals Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface, Eguren, Luis and Olga Fernández-Soriano (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2007 Translating maman and papa: A corpus-based survey Translation and Interpreting Studies 2:1, pp. 3–45 | Article
This study examines the translation of the French terms maman and papa by English-language translators from the nineteenth century to the present. Following a comparative analysis of the semantics of the French terms and of their most typical English translations, the authors of the study isolate… read more
2005 Discourse and register functions of detached structures: A case study of the translations of two plays Target 17:1, pp. 145–158 | Article
This article examines how “detached” elements (such as those at the beginning and end of Moi aussi, j’aime beaucoup ça, le beurre de peanut) have been handled in the translation of two Quebec plays into English. In French, detachment plays an important role in discourse, marking topic, focus, or… read more
2004 Null Objects in French and English Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003, Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance (eds.), pp. 121–138 | Article
2001 Unaccusativity and the Impersonal Construction of French Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Camps, Joaquim and Caroline R. Wiltshire (eds.), pp. 89–104 | Article