Unique items — over- or under-represented in translated language?

Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja

doi:10.1075/btl.48.14tir

In:Translation Universals: Do they exist?
Edited by Anna Mauranen and Pekka Kujamäki
[Benjamins Translation Library 48] 2004
► pp. 177–184

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Unique items — over- or under-represented in translated language?

Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit

Published online: 29 January 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.48.14tir

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