The structure of semantic networks in translated and non-translated Belgian. A corpus-based study of prototypicality effects and the semantic range of polysemous and near-synonymous lexemes

De structuur van semantische netwerken in vertaald en niet-vertaald Belgisch Nederlands. Een corpusvertaalkundig onderzoek naar prototypiciteitseffecten en het semantische bereik van polyseme en bijna-synonieme lexemen

Start - End

2012 - 2016 (ongoing)

Type

PhD research

Department(s)

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Research group(s)

EQTIS - Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies

Research Focus

Translation Studies

Tabgroup

Abstract

This project aims at identifying, visualizing and measuring semantic differences in translated Dutch compared to non-translated Dutch, using the Dutch Parallel Corpus and a variety of multivariate statistical techniques.

People

Supervisor(s)

Gert De Sutter

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Koen Plevoets

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication
Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics

Phd Student(s)

Lore Vandevoorde

Publications

A cognitive-sociolinguistic approach to meaning: visualizing the semantic structure of inchoative verbs in Dutch through translational corpora(2014)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Gert De Sutter
- Koen Plevoets
A cognitive-translational approach to meaning: visualizing semantic structure through translational corpora(2015)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Koen Plevoets
- Els Lefever
- Gert De Sutter
Een cognitief-sociolinguïstische kijk op betekenis: de visualisering van de semantische structuur van 'beginnen'(2014)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Gert De Sutter
- Koen Plevoets
On semantic differences between translated and non-translated Dutch : using bidirectional corpus data for measuring and visualizing distances between lexemes in the semantic field of inceptiveness(2016)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Gert De Sutter
- Koen Plevoets
Translation-driven mapping of semantic fields : the case of Dutch and French inceptive verbs(2013)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Gert De Sutter
- Koen Plevoets
Using bidirectional parallel corpus data for visualizing differences in semantic structure between translated and non-translated genres: the case of the semantic field of inchoativity in Dutch(2014)
- Lore Vandevoorde
- Gert De Sutter
- Koen Plevoets