Rosa Rabadán
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosa Rabadán is involved.
2026 Chapter 11.
be/estar
+ gerund: Mutual correspondence and cross-linguistic distribution Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges, Ramón, Noelia and María Pérez Blanco (eds.), pp. 274–295 | Chapter
This paper investigates whether
be/estar + gerund have equivalent distributions and whether translated data can clarify their cross-linguistic relationship. Using the bidirectional parallel corpus P-ACTRES 2.0, the study applies mutual correspondence (MC) and reverse mutual… read more
2026 Chapter 3. Exploring verbal register markers in English and Spanish promotional texts and essays Cross-linguistic Register Variation, Rørvik, Sylvi and Marlén Izquierdo (eds.), pp. 52–84 | Chapter
This study examines four verbal features — tense, modal constructions, directive forms, and the passive voice — across two registers (promotional texts in the food and drink domain and essays on current topics) in both English and Spanish to investigate potential shared patterns of register… read more
2024 The Spanish subjunctive mood and its English correspondences: A case for complexity across languages Comparing Crosslinguistic Complexity, Ström Herold, Jenny and Magnus Levin (eds.), pp. 33–56 | Article
Corpus-based contrastive studies have successfully addressed the empirical study of crosslinguistic similarities and differences and may also contribute to understanding complexity across languages. This paper aims at (dis)proving whether the Spanish subjunctive mood shows greater complexity… read more
2023 Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation: What corpora can tell us Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication, Izquierdo, Marlén and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar (eds.), pp. 34–50 | Chapter
Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) are combinations of a partially delexicalized verb and a noun indicating an action or an event (e. g., give a description). Studies modelled on the Meaning-Text theory and qualia roles of the Generative Lexicon model propose that LVCs combine nouns and verbs… read more
2021 Authoring support for Spanish language writers: A genre-restricted case study Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2, pp. 671–711 | Article
Authoring support consists of (semi)automated aids to be used at different stages during the writing process. Language information, however, tends to be restricted to areas such as spelling and grammar checking or term banks, and text construction difficulties that writers face concerning the… read more
2019 Working with parallel corpora: Usefulness and usability Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications, Doval, Irene and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Chapter
Although parallel corpora are vital for cross-linguistic and natural language processing (NLP) research, most have been designed for just one particular purpose, which may unnecessarily restrict their usefulness and usability. My argument is that the usefulness of existing parallel corpora… read more
2016 Proposals in meeting minutes: An English-Spanish corpus-based study Languages in Contrast 16:2, pp. 213–238 | Article
This paper provides an analysis of the lexico-grammatical features used in English and Spanish in the rhetorical part pertaining to the proposal step of a particular genre, meeting minutes. The results have been used in the construction of a computerized writing aid designed to assist Spanish… read more
2013 A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
This paper reports on a corpus-based analysis of how English affixal negation is translated into Spanish and the extent to which the use and distribution of the translations differ from those in non-translated Spanish texts. Empirical data for the study are drawn from the ACTRES Parallel Corpus… read more
2010 Applied Translation Studies Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 7–11 | Article
2009 Corpus-based contrastive analysis and translation universals: A tool for translation quality assessment English --> Spanish Babel 55:4, pp. 303–328 | Article
Project) developed at the University of León (Spain) for identifying instances of low-quality rendering of grammatical features when translating from English into Spanish using translation universals. The analysis provides information about: i) the resources available (or absence thereof) in each… read more
2008 Refining the idea of "applied extensions" Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Daniel Simeoni (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Article
2007 Divisions, description and applications: The interface between DTS, corpus-based research and contrastive analysis Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004, Gambier, Yves, Miriam Shlesinger † and Radegundis Stolze (eds.), pp. 237–252 | Chapter
The intersections of DTS with other related disciplines can provide potential sources of enrichment that go beyond the usual methodological divisions. This seems to be the case of corpus-based contrastive analysis which, while sharing procedures and research protocols that are properly referred to… read more
2006 Modality and modal verbs in contrast: Mapping out a translation(ally) relevant approach English-Spanish Languages in Contrast 6:2, pp. 261–306 | Article
This paper addresses the question of how English and Spanish encode the modal meanings of possibility and necessity. English modals and Spanish modal periphrases emerge as ‘cross-linguistic equivalents’ in this area. Data from two monolingual ‘comparable’ corpora — the Bank of English and CREA —… read more
1991 The unit of translation revisited Translation: Theory and Practice, Tension and Interdependence, Larson, Mildred L. (ed.), pp. 38–48 | Article