Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)

David Bremmers; Jianan Liu; Martijn van der Klis; Bert Le Bruyn

doi:10.1162/ling_a_00423

Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)

David Bremmers
, Jianan Liu
, Martijn van der Klis
, Bert Le Bruyn^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

ILS - Language Acquisition, Processing and Disorders

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Abstract

We present a parallel corpus study that compares the distribution of German contracted/ uncontracted articles and Mandarin bare nouns/ demonstratives. Work by Schwarz (2009) and Jenks (2018) leads us to predict that German contracted articles pattern with Mandarin bare nouns and German uncontracted articles with Mandarin demonstra-tives. We show that these predictions are only partly borne out and argue for a more fine-grained typology of definiteness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	735-752
Number of pages	18
Journal	Linguistic Inquiry
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00423
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2022

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Funding Information:
We wish to thank our two LI reviewers and the members of the Time in Translation project for very constructive and valuable feedback. We also thank our Mandarin consultants: Xiaoli Dong, Shuangshuang Hu, Siyang Kong, Zhenghao Li, Chou Mo, and Feifei Zhao. Financial support from NWO is gratefully acknowledged (grant 360-80-070). The final version of the article is the outcome of discussions among all coauthors. Initial responsibilities were as follows. German data collection and analysis: David; Mandarin data collection and analysis: Jianan; design of the Translation Mining interface and implementation: Martijn; concept and writing: Bert.

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Keywords

German
Mandarin
definiteness
semantics
strong/ weak distinction

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