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The preposition DO in combination with the genitive differs markedly across the Slavic languages, having expanded in meaning in all West Slavic as well as in the East Slavic languages Ukrainian and Belarusian. A parallel corpus of translated texts is used to compare the uses of DO and other prepositions from a pan-Slavic perspective. Rather than starting top-down, i.e., defining and comparing networks...
The article uses a stylometric approach to study differences between standard variants of the pluricentric standard language Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian in a corpus of originals and translations from other languages. Three experiments are reported. The first two serve to show that choice of the Croatian vs. Serbian variant is not the most important factor shaping frequency profiles of translations; rather,...