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This paper describes the methods used for lexical semantic change discovery in Spanish. We tried the method based on BERT embeddings with clustering, the method based on grammatical profiles and the grammatical profiles method enhanced with permutation tests. BERT embeddings with clustering turned out to show the best results for both graded and binary semantic change detection outperforming the baseline.Our best submission for graded discovery was the 3 rd best result, while for binary detection it was the 2 nd place (precision) and the 7 th place (both F1-score and recall). Our highest precision for binary detection was 0.75 and it was achieved due to improving grammatical profiling with permutation tests.

This article analyzes the existing translations of the German medieval epic poem Nibelungenlied into Russian. Russian translations, made by M. I. Kudryashev in 1889 and Yu. B. Korneev in 1972, were based on the outdated publication of the Nibelungenlied edited by K. Bartsch. The edition by K. Bartsch is rather a compilation than a critical study. The basis for this edition was the manuscript B, in which K. Bartsch made a great number of amendments. That is why K. Bartsch’s edition cannot be regarded as a suitable source for translation. In contrast, the translation by Yu. B. Korneev contains a number of factual inaccuracies and additions caused by the translator’s aim to keep the original metre. The article shows that it is necessary to make a new Russian translation of the Middle High German masterpiece. The article provides a review of possible problems facing a translator: accuracy of translation; making comments that give missing information or explain unclear places in the text. It argues in favour of overt translation with comments that help readers to understand the text which is a product of both another culture and another time. The article features a new translation of the first chapter of the Nibelungenlied (the manuscript B) with comments.

На материале «Песни о Нибелунгах» анализируются особенности прямой речи героев эпоса, ее роль и функции в построении всего произведения, а также выявляются принципы соотношения речи героев и речи автора. Показано, что в прямой речи выделяются три плана: план устного предания, план устной речи XII-XIII вв. и план письменной (авторской) речи. Принципы организации и способы выражения прямой речи оказали существенное влияние на композицию поэмы, которая на 38% состоит из речи персонажей. Ключевые слова: средневерхненемецкий язык; героический эпос; «Песнь о Нибелунгах»; прямая речь; синтаксис.

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