Chapter 7. The complex case of constrained communication
Ilmari Ivaska,
Silvia Bernardini,
Adriano Ferraresi
Abstract:In this study we explore the common ground between second-language writing and translated language as instances of constrained language use. Our research design involves three languages (English, Finnish, Italian), two constraining languages and two different registers in each of the three languages. These are compared in terms of frequency of syntactic structures (part-of-speech [POS] bigrams), adopting a corpus-driven method combining keyness analysis and multidimensional analysis. No general constrainedness… Show more
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