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In recent years, Construction Grammar has emerged as an enhanced theoretical framework for studies on phraseology in general, and particularly for collocational analysis. This paper aims at contributing to the study of collocational constructions in translated Spanish. To this end, the construction [V PP_ de miedo ] is analysed in detail. Our methodology is corpus-based and compares subtitled translations with general Spanish, American Spanish and Peninsular Spanish. The findings suggest that collocational constructions in translated Spanish have a clear preference for the Peninsular standard. They reflect features of translationese, as well as universal traits such as simplification, normalisation, and convergence. Another interesting finding refers to corpus selection, as giga-token corpora appear to provide more fine-grained analysis that conventional, balanced corpora.
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It has been web-crawled with Spiderling, (pre)processed and tagged with Freeling 4.0.
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The Spanish varieties spoken in Puerto Rico or southwestern United States are not covered.
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The research presented in this paper has been partially carried out in the framework of the research projects Inteliterm (FFI2012–38881), Termitur (HUM2754) and Vip (FFI2016-75831-P).
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Pastor, G.C. (2017). Collocational Constructions in Translated Spanish: What Corpora Reveal. In: Mitkov, R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10596. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69805-2_3
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