Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)

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Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)
 
Bremmers, David; Liu, Jianan; van der Klis, Martijn; Le Bruyn, Bert
(2022) Linguistic Inquiry, volume 53, issue 4, pp. 735 - 752
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Abstract
We present a parallel corpus study that compares the distribution of German contracted/ uncontracted articles and Mandarin bare nouns/ demonstratives. Work by Schwarz (2009) and Jenks (2018) leads us to predict that German contracted articles pattern with Mandarin bare nouns and German uncontracted articles with Mandarin demonstra-tives. We show that ... read more
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Keywords: German, Mandarin, definiteness, semantics, strong/ weak distinction, Taverne, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00423
ISSN: 0024-3892
Publisher: MIT Press Journals
Note: Funding Information: We wish to thank our two LI reviewers and the members of the Time in Translation project for very constructive and valuable feedback. We also thank our Mandarin consultants: Xiaoli Dong, Shuangshuang Hu, Siyang Kong, Zhenghao Li, Chou Mo, and Feifei Zhao. Financial support from NWO is gratefully acknowledged (grant 360-80-070). The final version of the article is the outcome of discussions among all coauthors. Initial responsibilities were as follows. German data collection and analysis: David; Mandarin data collection and analysis: Jianan; design of the Translation Mining interface and implementation: Martijn; concept and writing: Bert. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, MIT Press Journals. All rights reserved.
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