The German and Norwegian correspondences to the English construction type thats what
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7913533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stig Johansson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2001.024 |
| OpenAlex | W2082215540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper examines the German and Norwegian correspondences to English constructions of the type that's what. The study is based on material drawn from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus, which contains original texts and their translations for each of the three languages. Three types of correspondence relation are studied: translations (how that's what is translated into German and Norwegian), sources (the German and Norwegian forms that give rise to that's what), and parallels (the parallel translation in the other larguage inhere a German or Norwegian form gives rise to that's what). Although similar syntactic options are available in German and Norwegian, choices differ widely. The predominant German correspondence is a single-clause construction with an analogous theme (e.g. That's what woke me up > Davon bin ich doch aufgewacht), in Norwegian a cleft construction with a dummy subject and a predicated theme (e.g. That's what woke me up > Det var derfor jeg vaknet, lit. 'it was therefore I woke up'). But a single clause with an analogous theme (as in German) is also frequently used in Norwegian. Largely the same correspondence pattern is found with German translations, sources, and parallels, while the pattern in Norwegian varies greatly depending upon the type of correspondence relation (i.e. translation, source, and parallel)
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |