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Information Structure in Parallel Texts
  • ISSN 1387-6759
  • E-ISSN: 1569-9897
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Abstract

In spite of the fact that Swedish gå and English go are historically rather closely related in a transparent way, both verbs are translated by their etymological counterpart only in around one third of the cases, as evidenced from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. The article compares the patterns of polysemy formed by the major senses of the two cognates in each language against the background of some typological studies

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1999-01-01
2025-04-20
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