Jonas Freiwald

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jonas Freiwald is involved.

Title

Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts

Jonas Freiwald

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.

Articles

Freiwald, Jonas and Stella Neumann 2026 Re-opening the case: A corpus-based study of translational patterns using non-agentive constructions in translations from English to German Target 38:1, pp. 114–142 | Article

How does the variability of the language system affect translational language use? Despite inconclusive results of earlier corpus studies, machine learning approaches reach high accuracies in distinguishing translated from non-translated texts. Translations must therefore involve linguistic… read more

Heilmann, Arndt, Jonas Freiwald, Stella Neumann and Zoë Miljanović 2022 Analyzing the effects of entrenched grammatical constructions on translation Translation, Cognition & Behavior 5:1, pp. 110–143 | Article

This study analyzes translation behaviour with respect to the salience of two grammatical constructions that differ in frequency. We assumed that a more frequent construction is also more entrenched in the translator’s mind and that as a result different translation solutions are more readily… read more