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Syntactic Hybridity in TC: ‘SHI’ Structures

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Hybridity in Translated Chinese

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This chapter explores the syntactic hybridity features in translated Chinese with the focus on ‘SHI’ structure. It first introduces the categories and functions of ‘SHI’ structure in Chinese, then explores its different collocation structures in translated and native Chinese. The concordancing results from English-Chinese parallel corpora illustrates that the high frequency of ‘SHI’ structures in translated Chinese is the influence of the source language in the translation processes and nominalization tendency in the translated Chinese.

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Dai, G. (2016). Syntactic Hybridity in TC: ‘SHI’ Structures. In: Hybridity in Translated Chinese. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0742-2_10

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