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Archive | 2012

Through seen through the looking glass of translation equivalence: a proposed method for determining closeness of word senses

Thomas Egan

This paper advances the hypothesis that translation equivalents may be employed to cast light on the semantic network of a lexeme in its original language. The lexeme investigated is through, which is commonly taken to have the prototypical sense of ‘entrance-traversal-exit’. Some recent research, however, has indicated that various instrumental senses are more common in actual usage. The particular question addressed in this paper is how the various senses of through are related to each other. The data consist of all 696 tokens of through in the English language original texts in the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. These are first sorted into various semantic classes using normal corpus linguistic methods. The translations into Norwegian of the various senses are then examined with an emphasis on the similarities and differences between them. The basic hypothesis is that the senses that are translated in similar ways in a particular language are felt to be more closely related by users of that language than senses that are translated in very different ways. Restricted as it is to translations into one language, the study does not contain enough data to test this hypothesis, but the evidence presented suggests that it may be worth exploring in greater detail.


207-228 | 2014

English amid(st) and among(st) : a contrastive approach based on Norwegian and Swedish translation data

Thomas Egan; Gudrun Rawoens

This is the authors version of an article published in Language and Computors. The article has been peer-reviewed, but does not include the publisher’s layout. Publishers version is available here: http://www.brill.com/products/book/recent-advances-corpus-linguistics


Archive | 2011

Perception and conception

Thomas Egan


Nordic Journal of English Studies | 2015

Motion into and out of in English, French and Norwegian.

Thomas Egan; Anne-Line Graedler


Functions of Language | 2013

Distinguishing causative and permissive readings of the Swedish verb lata

Gudrun Rawoens; Thomas Egan


Metamaterials | 2015

Coding Betweenness in Swedish and Norwegian Translations from English

Gudrun Rawoens; Thomas Egan


Languages in Contrast | 2013

Moving over in(to) English and French: A translation-based study of ‘overness’

Thomas Egan; Gudrun Rawoens


Archive | 2010

The ‘ fail to ’ construction in Late Modern and Present-Day English

Thomas Egan


English historical linguistics 2006: selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English historical linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006, Vol. 1, 2008 (Syntax and morphology), ISBN 978-90-272-4810-7, págs. 223-240 | 2008

Emotion verbs with to -infinitive complements: From specific to general predication

Thomas Egan


Constructions | 2007

Did John really promise Mary to leave

Thomas Egan

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