Olga Nádvorníková
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Nádvorníková is involved.
Articles
2024 French, Polish and Czech converbs: A contrastive corpus-based study Linguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 197–225 | Article
The study investigates the translation correspondence of Czech, Polish, and French converbs (transgressive, imiesłów przysłówkowy, and gérondif), using extensive data extracted from parallel corpora of fiction. Although the three converbs share significant syntactic and semantic properties (in… read more
2020 Differences in the lexical variation of reporting verbs in French, English and Czech fiction and their impact on translation The Complementary Contribution of Comparable and Parallel Corpora to Crosslinguistic Studies, Granger, Sylviane and Marie-Aude Lefer (eds.), pp. 209–234 | Article
The aims of this paper are to analyse differences in the degree of lexical variation (type/token ratio and hapax/token ratio) of reporting verbs in reporting clauses placed medially or in postposition in English, French and Czech fiction and to evaluate their consequences in translation,… read more