How frequent are the contractions? A study of contracted forms in the Translational English Corpus

Target

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-89

  Olohan, Maeve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracted forms; Contractions; Corpus based translation studies; English literary translations; Explicitation; Register analysis; Translational English corpus; Translator style

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712755     PISSN: 09241884     EISSN: 15699986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/target.15.1.04olo     Document Type: Article

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