Dutch and German noun-noun compounds in translation

• Metsenaere, Hinde De ^[1] ; Sonia Vandepitte ^[1] ; Velde, Marc Van de ^[1]
  1. [1] Ghent University

     Ghent University

     Arrondissement Gent, Bélgica

     
• Localización: Lebende Sprachen, ISSN 0023-9909, Vol. 61, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 175-205
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Although nominal compounding is a very productive word formation category in Dutch and German, it is often claimed that it is realized differently in these closely related languages: Where German prefers a compound, Dutch may opt for an alternative construction. The present article explores the differences in nominal compounding by analysing a bidirectional translation corpus. A quantitative analysis confirms that German is more compound-productive than Dutch.

    Furthermore, patterns are identified to illustrate that different preferences in the rendering of semantic content can lead to Dutch phrases where German uses a compound.