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In this paper, I argue for the need for more complex models to describe actual translations (in aligned corpora) and present a particular proposal designed to accomplish such a description, termed the “translation network”. A translation network joins models of the two languages involved, inspired by the aspectual networks of Moens (1987), and attempts to cater, in a systematic way, for many situations that occur in actual translation. This chapter is divided into four main sections. In Section 1 a brief description of many problems that are not addressed by simpler models of translation is presented. Section 2 represents the core of this chapter, describing how translation networks are composed. This description is illuminated with examples from literary translations between English and Portuguese. Section 3 critically reviews some problems with the model, before Section 4 concludes with a short defense of it.
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Santos, D. (2000). The translation network. In: Véronis, J. (eds) Parallel Text Processing. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2535-4_8
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