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Parallel Translation Corpora

Patrick Corness. A computer tool for cross-linguistic research (incorporates a comparison of Czech and Lithuanian translations of George Orwell's 1984)

Lexis in contrast: corpus-based approaches. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2002, 307-326

Patrick Corness, ed. Czech/Lithuanian Parallel Translation Corpus. 2003. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Centre of Computational Linguistics: https://klc.vdu.lt/en/parallel-corpus/

Also incorporated in the InterCorp project at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

František Čermák, Patrick Corness, Aleš Klégr, eds.

InterCorp: exploring a multilingual corpus (proceedings of InterCorp Conference, Prague, Sept 17th-19th 2009). Praha, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny.

This volume includes:

Patrick Corness. Shifts in Czech translations of the reporting verb said in English fiction., pp. 159-176

2013, September

Patrick John Corness. Čtyřjazyčný překladový korpus

[Tetralingual Translation Corpus Czech/English/German/Russian)]. Presentation [in Czech] at InterCorp Workshop, Charles University in Prague, 6th September 2013

Czech PDF version of the presentation:

English PDF version of the presentation:

Patrick John Corness, Lithuanian counterparts of Czech possibility/probability particles: the evidence of a parallel corpus.

In:

Radost z jazyků: Sborník příspěvků k 75. narozeninám prof. Františka Čermáka

[The joy of languages: a collective volume in honour of the 75th birthday of Prof. František Čermák]. Praha, Lidové noviny, 5th February 2015, 201-214.

In progress, 2026:

A parallel translation corpus of Jiří Levý's Umění překladu [The Art of Translation] aligned and edited by Patrick John Corness, in collaboration with Charles University, Prague, for a project celebrating the centenary of the birth of Jiří Levý.:

1. First Czech edition:

Jiří Levý. Umění překladu. Praha, Československý spisovatel. 1963

2. German translation:

Jiří Levý. Die literarische Übersetzung: Theorie einer Kunstgattung. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Walter Schamschula. Frankfurt am Main, Bonn, Athenäum Verlag. 1969

3. Russian translation:

Иржи Левый. Искусство перевода. Перевод с чешского и предисловие Вл. Россельса. Москва, Издательство Прогресс. 1974

4. (Serbo)Croatian translation:

Jirži Levi. Umjetnost prevoðenja. Prevod i predgovor dr Bogdan L. Dabiċ. Sarajevo, Svjetlost. 1982

5. Second Czech edition:

Jiří Levý. Umění překladu. Praha, Ivo Železný. 1998

6. English translation:

Jiří Levý.The Art of Translation. Translated by Patrick Corness. Edited with a critical foreword by Zuzana Jettmarová. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2011