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Publication details [#19623]
Quiroz, Gabriel Angel G. 2006. Using an English-Spanish parallel corpus to solve complex premodification in noun phrases. In Gotti, Maurizio and Susan Šarčević, eds. Insights into specialized translation (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 46). Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 367–390.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
This article analyses a parallel corpus of English-Spanish complex noun phrases extracted from medical texts. The data comparing their length, pattern, and the type of solution is intended to help identify and describe the techniques used to translate English complex premodification into Spanish. The analysis shows that well-established patterns are used in such translations. Translating English complex noun phrases into Spanish often presents a challenge because there are numerous ways to make the relations explicit by means of postmodification. Identifying the regularity of these patterns is very important for specialized translation and translation training purposes.
Source : M. Gotti & S. Šarčević