’While’ and ’Until’ Clauses and Expletive Negation in a Corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian Parallel Texts

Ivan Derzhanski, Olena Siruk


Abstract
The combination of the meanings ‘while’ and ‘until’ in a single lexeme and the use of expletive negation with the latter meaning are widespread phenomena that are a rich source of research problems. In this paper we present a comparative bilingual Bulgarian and Ukrainian corpus-based study of several conjunctions that share these two meanings. We discuss the difference in the frequency of expletive negation in the two languages, the use of až ‘even, all the way’ in Ukrainian and the impact of the original language in translated texts.
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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2016)
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September
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2016
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Ivan Derzhanski and Olena Siruk. 2016. ’While’ and ’Until’ Clauses and Expletive Negation in a Corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian Parallel Texts. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2016), pages 11–18, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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’While’ and ’Until’ Clauses and Expletive Negation in a Corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian Parallel Texts (Derzhanski & Siruk, CLIB 2016)
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