Gert De Sutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gert De Sutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gert |
| FAMILY NAME | De Sutter |
| SIGNATURE | DE SUTTER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1998-6151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How do translators select among competing (near-)synonyms in translation
This article investigates how translators choose between multiple competing onomasiological variants to express (verbal) inchoativity in English-to-Dutch translations. Using a corpus-based multifactorial research design, we measure the impact of three well-known socio-cognitive mechanisms on the actual choice, namely the complexity principle, risk aversion, and cognate exposure. We apply the behavioural profile method, which allows us to operatio…
Weighing Psycholinguistic and Social Factors for Semantic Agreement in Dutch Pronouns
Previous research has shown that Dutch pronominal gender is in a process of resemanticization: Highly individuated nouns are increasingly referred to with masculine and feminine pronouns, and lowly individuated ones with the neuter pronoun het/’t ‘it’, irrespective of the grammatical gender of the noun (Audring 2009). The process is commonly attributed to the loss of adnominal gender agreement, which is increasingly blurring distinctions between …
Jaar Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
De verwerving van de groene en rode woordvolgorde in Vlaanderen
The acquisition of [PART+AUX] and [AUX+PART] word order in Flanders. A descriptive, methodological and theoretical addition toMeyer & Weerman (2016) This paper presents new data on the acquisition of verb clusters in Flemish children. The data were collected by means of a sentence repetition task and the results are in line with the development path for verb clusters in Dutch children as proposed by Meyer & Weerman (2016). While Flemish children …
On the need for a new research agenda for corpus-based translation studies
Twenty-five years after the emergence of corpus-based translation studies the present paper offers a critical analysis of the current state of the art in corpus-based translation studies, focusing on what it has yielded in terms of description, methodology and theory. This analysis leads to the detection of problem areas which result in limitations to progress in the field. We argue that these limitations can be overcome, by adopting a revised re…
Between language policy and language reality
The present study explores how subtitlers in Dutch-speaking Belgium deal with the linguistic tension between the norm-adherent language policy of the broadcaster they work for (VRT) – which is oriented towards the use of Belgian Standard Dutch – and the particular language situation in Flanders, which is characterized by the increasing use of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (CBD) in spoken contexts. Subtitlers, who produce written reproductions of spoke…
A corpus-based multivariate analysis of linguistic norm-adherence in audiovisual and written translation
The present paper investigates linguistic norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch written and audiovisual translation. More particularly, it is measured to what extent language use in subtitles, in comparison to regular written translations and non-translations, conforms to explicit linguistic norms. Additionally, we analyze which effect different contextual parameters have on the extent of norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch subtitles. We use the Dutch Para…
Corpus-based translation studies
This paper provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in translation studies as represented in this special issue, with a special focus on corpus-based approaches that (re-)connect translation studies with other fields of corpus-based research in linguistics or which explore new types of translation data in the broadest possible sense of the term. It does so by singling out papers that illustrate different methods of data harvesting, on th…
Towards methodologically more rigorous corpus-based translation studies
This paper argues in favour of a more rigorous methodology for corpusbased translation studies. According to our proposal, research papers in the field should be minimally required to (i) provide a meticulous overview of the corpus materials used and of the exact procedures for selecting, annotating and sifting the data; (ii) comment on any specific problems encountered during data selection and annotation, including explicit and motivated statem…
The geography of gender change
Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English
This article reports on a detailed corpus-based and contrastive analysis of the syntactic, semantic and functional properties of English depend , French dépendre and Dutch afhangen , liggen and zien as markers of intersubjectivity. Based on three large-scale monolingual corpora of spoken English, French and Dutch, the results show that these intersubjectivity markers are semantically related to a conditional meaning of the verbs they are based on…
Prosodic and syntactic-pragmatic mechanisms of grammatical variation
This paper reports on a quantitative corpus-based study of the impact of a postverbal constituent (PVC) on the choice of word order in Dutch written clause final verb clusters consisting of a participle and an auxiliary verb. The study verifies the results of previous research by analyzing the effect of the presence vs. the absence of a PVC, while at the same time extending previous research by scrutinizing this effect more in depth. More specifi…
Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling
Collective nouns such as committee, family , or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular (“one”) and plural (“more than one”): they refer to a multiplicity that is conceptualized as a unity. In this article, which focuses on Dutch collective nouns, it is argued that some collective nouns are rather “one”, whereas others are rather “more than one”. Collective nouns are shown to be d…
On the need for a new research agenda for corpus-based translation studies
Twenty-five years after the emergence of corpus-based translation studies the present paper offers a critical analysis of the current state of the art in corpus-based translation studies, focusing on what it has yielded in terms of description, methodology and theory. This analysis leads to the detection of problem areas which result in limitations to progress in the field. We argue that these limitations can be overcome, by adopting a revised re…
The geography of gender change
Between language policy and language reality
The present study explores how subtitlers in Dutch-speaking Belgium deal with the linguistic tension between the norm-adherent language policy of the broadcaster they work for (VRT) – which is oriented towards the use of Belgian Standard Dutch – and the particular language situation in Flanders, which is characterized by the increasing use of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (CBD) in spoken contexts. Subtitlers, who produce written reproductions of spoke…
Prosodic and syntactic-pragmatic mechanisms of grammatical variation
This paper reports on a quantitative corpus-based study of the impact of a postverbal constituent (PVC) on the choice of word order in Dutch written clause final verb clusters consisting of a participle and an auxiliary verb. The study verifies the results of previous research by analyzing the effect of the presence vs. the absence of a PVC, while at the same time extending previous research by scrutinizing this effect more in depth. More specifi…
Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling
Collective nouns such as committee, family , or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular (“one”) and plural (“more than one”): they refer to a multiplicity that is conceptualized as a unity. In this article, which focuses on Dutch collective nouns, it is argued that some collective nouns are rather “one”, whereas others are rather “more than one”. Collective nouns are shown to be d…
Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling
Collective nouns such as committee, family , or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular (“one”) and plural (“more than one”): they refer to a multiplicity that is conceptualized as a unity. In this article, which focuses on Dutch collective nouns, it is argued that some collective nouns are rather “one”, whereas others are rather “more than one”. Collective nouns are shown to be d…
Prosodic and syntactic-pragmatic mechanisms of grammatical variation
This paper reports on a quantitative corpus-based study of the impact of a postverbal constituent (PVC) on the choice of word order in Dutch written clause final verb clusters consisting of a participle and an auxiliary verb. The study verifies the results of previous research by analyzing the effect of the presence vs. the absence of a PVC, while at the same time extending previous research by scrutinizing this effect more in depth. More specifi…
Contingency hedges in Dutch, French and English
This article reports on a detailed corpus-based and contrastive analysis of the syntactic, semantic and functional properties of English depend , French dépendre and Dutch afhangen , liggen and zien as markers of intersubjectivity. Based on three large-scale monolingual corpora of spoken English, French and Dutch, the results show that these intersubjectivity markers are semantically related to a conditional meaning of the verbs they are based on…
The geography of gender change
Towards methodologically more rigorous corpus-based translation studies
This paper argues in favour of a more rigorous methodology for corpusbased translation studies. According to our proposal, research papers in the field should be minimally required to (i) provide a meticulous overview of the corpus materials used and of the exact procedures for selecting, annotating and sifting the data; (ii) comment on any specific problems encountered during data selection and annotation, including explicit and motivated statem…
A corpus-based multivariate analysis of linguistic norm-adherence in audiovisual and written translation
The present paper investigates linguistic norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch written and audiovisual translation. More particularly, it is measured to what extent language use in subtitles, in comparison to regular written translations and non-translations, conforms to explicit linguistic norms. Additionally, we analyze which effect different contextual parameters have on the extent of norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch subtitles. We use the Dutch Para…
Corpus-based translation studies
This paper provides an overview of state-of-the-art research in translation studies as represented in this special issue, with a special focus on corpus-based approaches that (re-)connect translation studies with other fields of corpus-based research in linguistics or which explore new types of translation data in the broadest possible sense of the term. It does so by singling out papers that illustrate different methods of data harvesting, on th…
Between language policy and language reality
The present study explores how subtitlers in Dutch-speaking Belgium deal with the linguistic tension between the norm-adherent language policy of the broadcaster they work for (VRT) – which is oriented towards the use of Belgian Standard Dutch – and the particular language situation in Flanders, which is characterized by the increasing use of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (CBD) in spoken contexts. Subtitlers, who produce written reproductions of spoke…
On the need for a new research agenda for corpus-based translation studies
Twenty-five years after the emergence of corpus-based translation studies the present paper offers a critical analysis of the current state of the art in corpus-based translation studies, focusing on what it has yielded in terms of description, methodology and theory. This analysis leads to the detection of problem areas which result in limitations to progress in the field. We argue that these limitations can be overcome, by adopting a revised re…
Jaar Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
De verwerving van de groene en rode woordvolgorde in Vlaanderen
The acquisition of [PART+AUX] and [AUX+PART] word order in Flanders. A descriptive, methodological and theoretical addition toMeyer & Weerman (2016) This paper presents new data on the acquisition of verb clusters in Flemish children. The data were collected by means of a sentence repetition task and the results are in line with the development path for verb clusters in Dutch children as proposed by Meyer & Weerman (2016). While Flemish children …
Weighing Psycholinguistic and Social Factors for Semantic Agreement in Dutch Pronouns
Previous research has shown that Dutch pronominal gender is in a process of resemanticization: Highly individuated nouns are increasingly referred to with masculine and feminine pronouns, and lowly individuated ones with the neuter pronoun het/’t ‘it’, irrespective of the grammatical gender of the noun (Audring 2009). The process is commonly attributed to the loss of adnominal gender agreement, which is increasingly blurring distinctions between …
How do translators select among competing (near-)synonyms in translation
This article investigates how translators choose between multiple competing onomasiological variants to express (verbal) inchoativity in English-to-Dutch translations. Using a corpus-based multifactorial research design, we measure the impact of three well-known socio-cognitive mechanisms on the actual choice, namely the complexity principle, risk aversion, and cognate exposure. We apply the behavioural profile method, which allows us to operatio…
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works)