Construction shifts in translations: A corpus-based study

Serbina, Tatiana

doi:10.1075/cf.5.2.03ser

Article published In: Constructions and Frames
Vol. 5:2 (2013) ► pp.168–191

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Construction shifts in translations

A corpus-based study

Tatiana Serbina | RWTH Aachen Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft

Published online: 7 April 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.5.2.03ser

In the present paper the phenomenon of translation shifts is discussed within the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar. It is suggested that viewing linguistic structures of various sizes and levels of abstractness as constructions allows us to better grasp the complexities of the phenomenon of translation shifts. The methodology of studying construction shifts is applied to the analysis of the construction [Subject Verb Direct Object] for the translation direction English-German. The quantitative results have been obtained using the parallel CroCo corpus.

Keywords: [Subj V Dobj] construction, construction grammar, CroCo Corpus, translation studies, translation shifts

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