Preliminary Analysis of a Slavic Parallel Corpus
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چکیده
The focus of this paper is on a detailed description of a newlydeveloped parallel corpus of Slavic languages. It consists of 11 Slavic translations of the well-known Russian socialist realist novel “Kak zakaljalas’ stal’/How the steel was tempered” (KZS), written by N.A. Ostrovskij in the years 1932-34. The KZS contains the Slovene, Croatian, Serbian (ekavian), Macedonian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Slovak, Czech, Polish and Upper Sorbian translations. Thus, for the first time a parallel text of almost all Slavic standard languages is available. In addition to the discussion of some text-specific issues of KZS, an explorative statistical analysis and a linguistic interpretation of text length and the Type-Token Ratio is offered.
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