The notion of translation universals has been subject to debate for a long time (Baker 1993;
Chesterman 2004; Mauranen & Kujamäki 2004). Its status today is problematic (see House …

This study compares the syntactic complexity between translational and non-translational
English across four genres (ie fiction, news, general prose, and academic prose) and …

Задачей настоящей статьи является описание типологического разнообразия
полипредикативных причинных конструкций в языках мира. С одной стороны, мы …

The use of corpora in translation studies has risen dramatically over recent years,
contributing towards a growing body of empirical research focussing not only on what …

Drawing upon the data collected in a translation experiment, this study combines product-
and process-based analyses of translations with a focus on word class shifts. The keystroke …

Languages are constantly changing and there are numerous reasons as to why languages
change. One of these is contact-induced language change. It refers to the situation where …

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a sound conceptual basis for a cross-linguistic
study on ellipses as omission phenomena in English and German. The dissertation has a …

This article investigates the role of translations from English in language change in Chinese.
It employs a new corpus, the Chinese Diachronic Composite Corpus (CDCC), which …

Abstract Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is the choice of analysis theory offering
effective tools to analyse the language difficulties and vagueness. One of the systemic …

" Empirical research is carried out in a cyclic way: approaching a research area bottom-up,
data lead to interpretations and ideally to the abstraction of laws, on the basis of which a …