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Native and Translated Chinese: Normality and Hybridity

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This chapter introduces the linguistic norms of native Chinese, such as non-inflectional morphology, aspect prominent, monosyllabism, paratactic syntax, etc. All these norms can be useful for differentiating translated Chinese from the non-translated Chinese. It presents some linguistic features which will be the focuses in the exploration, and also explores the framework for describing the hybridity features in translated Chinese.

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Dai, G. (2016). Native and Translated Chinese: Normality and Hybridity. In: Hybridity in Translated Chinese. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0742-2_6

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