English and French causal connectives in contrast
English and French causal connectives in contrast
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英语和法语因果连接词对比
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2012
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通讯作者：
Bruno Cartoni
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S. Zufferey;Bruno Cartoni
语篇联系语通常被认为是语言特定的，因此不容易与目标语中的翻译对等语配对。然而，很少有研究评估这些差异的程度和原因。在本文中，我们提供了一个概述的相似性和差异之间的因果连接词在两个类型学相关的语言：英语和法语。我们首先讨论了两个标准，在文献中解释这些差异：使用域的概念和信息状态的原因段。然后，我们测试这些标准的有效性，通过实证对比研究的因果连接词在英语和法语中，进行双向语料库。我们的研究结果表明，法语和英语连接词只有部分重叠的配置文件和翻译等价物是充分预测这两个标准。
Discourse connectives are often said to be language specific, and therefore not easily paired with a translation equivalent in a target language. However, few studies have assessed the magnitude and the causes of these divergences. In this paper, we provide an overview of the similarities and discrepancies between causal connectives in two typologically related languages: English and French. We first discuss two criteria used in the literature to account for these differences: the notion of domains of use and the information status of the cause segment. We then test the validity of these criteria through an empirical contrastive study of causal connectives in English and French, performed on a bidirectional corpus. Our results indicate that French and English connectives have only partially overlapping profiles and that translation equivalents are adequately predicted by these two criteria.