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In:Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations
Edited by Julia Lavid-López, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
[Benjamins Translation Library 158] 2021
► pp. 75–100

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Chapter 3
Word alignment in a parallel corpus of Old English prose

From asymmetry to inter-syntactic annotation

ORCiD logo with link | Universidad de La Rioja
Published online: 8 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.158.03mar
Abstract
This chapter proposes a model of syntactic annotation for the Parallel Corpus of Old English Prose, an aligned corpus of Old English and Present Day English texts. The research focuses on areas of syntactic divergence between the aligned texts. Syntactic divergence is described in terms of four types of alignment asymmetry (markedness, constituency, order, and configuration) and is represented by means of two components: a structural description and a dependency tree. The main conclusion is that these two components constitute a historical micro-grammar that identifies stability and change with respect to specific categories and constructions.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
  • 3.The design of an aligned parallel corpus of Old English prose
  • 4.Inter-syntax and asymmetry
  • 5.The scope and components of the inter-syntax
  • 6.Conclusion and further research
  • The following abbreviations are used in this section
  • References
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