Publications

Publication details [#65722]

Crible, Ludivine, Ágnes Abuczki, Nijolė Burkšaitienė, Péter Furkó, Anna Nedoluzhko, Sigita Rackevičienė, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė and Šárka Zikánová. 2019. Functions and translations of discourse markers in TED Talks: A parallel corpus study of underspecification in five languages. Journal of Pragmatics 142 : 139–155.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | discourse marker | sense | translation | underspecification

Language as a subject

Czech | English | French | Hungarian | Lithuanian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Annotation of translation corpora unveils three underspecification kinds that impact discourse markers. Omissions and the multeity of translation equivalents differ with the function of the original marker across languages. And, but, so and their translations convey a confined number of functions and domains, comparable across languages.