Project

Alliance Research Group: Crossing the border between English and Spanish

Acronym
DSN
Code
05L00415
Duration
01 August 2015 β†’ 31 August 2027
Funding
Ghent University funding
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Translation studies
    • Interpreting studies
Keywords
Dutch Spanish grammar
 
Project description

This project aimed at a linguistic and translational study of demonstrative elements in Dutch and Spanish. The research is carried out on the basis of a corpus of translated texts Spanish-Dutch and Dutch-Spanish. The combination of these two languages ​​is particularly interesting, because the demonstrative systems are clearly different from each other. Dutch is characterized by a two-pole system (dit-this; that-die), like English, for example, while Spanish has a three-pole system (este-ese-aquel). How exactly the two Dutch poles link up with the three Spanish poles and whether or not they cover the same domain identically, has not been described exhaustively before.