News Translation as a Source of Syntactic Borrowing in Italian

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ID6127769
AuthorsMairi Mclaughlin (0000-0002-7717-1698, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume33
Issue3
Pages443-463
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Italianist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-619X • E-ISSN: 0261-4340
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/0261434013z.00000000055
OpenAlexW1979761137
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

In this article, I present results from an investigation of translation in the press from English into Italian. The investigation combines fieldwork carried out in an international news agency with the linguistic analysis of a corpus of translated news dispatches. The investigation revolves around three case studies concerning adjective position, passive constructions, and verbal -ndo forms. I use the case studies to determine whether (and to what extent) news translation could be a source of syntactic borrowing in contemporary Italian. The results are interpreted in the context of a larger project on syntactic borrowing in French and Italian. By situating the results in this broader context, I am able to draw theoretical conclusions about news translation as a source of linguistic change, and more generally about the linguistic outcomes of language contact

Adjective · Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Corpus linguistics · Linguistic analysis · Linguistic context · Linguistics · Noun · Sociology · Source text · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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