A Parallel Corpus-Based Study of the Difference in Dependency Distance Between English and Chinese in C-E Translation

• 作者: LI Liang
• 来源期刊: 美中外语:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: parallel corpus contrastive study dependency distance dependency direction
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（12）
• 页码范围: 341-345
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Based upon four self-built parallel corpora,the paper presents itself as a comparative study of the dependency distance between Chinese ST and English TT,between the works of the same style and between the works of different styles.The result shows that:(1)The dependency distance value(the DD value)of Chinese is much larger than of English;(2)English is a governor-initial language,while Chinese tends to be more governor-final;and(3)many factors,for example,the position of governors and dependents,the frequency of the connections between sub-clauses,difference in inflectional explicitation of C-E translations,concise purpose as well as translative styles have led to the difference in dependency distance between Chinese and English.