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Author Doherty, Monika.

Title Structural propensities : translating nominal word groups from English into German / Monika Doherty
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 196 pages)
Series Benjamins translations library, 0929-7316 ; v. 65
Benjamins translations library ; v. 65. 0929-7316
Contents Structural Propensities; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Theoretical and methodological aspects of basic concepts; Discourse-appropriate distribution of information in different classes of English and German sentences; The translation of nominal word groups; Reorganizing dependencies; Cross-sentential restructuring of NPs and prospective relevance; Retrospective and prospective aspects of structural propensities; References; Author index; Subject index; The series Benjamins Translation Library
Summary This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German, closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters, with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the author's results of a series of research projects which have successively dealt with the typologically determined conditions for discourse-appropriate uses of word order, case, voice (perspective) and structural explicitness in simple and complex sentences or sequences of sentences. The theoretical and method
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English language -- Translating into German.
English language -- Nominals.
English language -- Noun phrase.
English language.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
English language
English language -- Nominals
English language -- Noun phrase
English language -- Translating into German
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ISBN 9789027293848
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9781282156135
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