Patterns in Contrast

Ebeling, Jarle; Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell

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“…The mirror of P 1 a,b,c is a Landau-Ginzburg superpotential W , which is a holomorphic function defined over C 3 . Mirror symmetry between P 1 a,b,c and W has been intensively investigated [S1,ST,ET,Ef,R]. On the other hand, the enumerative nature of the superpotential W was less understood.…”

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Lagrangian Floer potential of orbifold spheres

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Hong

Kim

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Advances in Mathematics

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Abstract. For each sphere with three orbifold points, we construct an algorithm to compute the open Gromov-Witten potential, which serves as the quantum-corrected Landau-Ginzburg mirror and is an infinite series in general. This gives the first class of general-type geometries whose full potentials can be computed. As a consequence we obtain an enumerative meaning of mirror maps for elliptic curve quotients. Furthermore, we prove that the open Gromov-Witten potential is convergent, even in the general-type cases, and has an isolated singularity at the origin, which is an important ingredient of proving homological mirror symmetry.

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Lagrangian Floer potential of orbifold spheres

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Kim

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Advances in Mathematics

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“…6 With reference to Teich's point (i), it should be mentioned that a comparison of English originals vs. Norwegian originals, following similar methodological steps as in the current study, will be conducted in a separate study. 7 It is believed that results from such an inter-linguistic comparison may feed directly into this intra-linguistic one, as we will be able to point to (potential) SL effects (from Norwegian) in the English translations, which in turn may explain (potential) deviations from the use of 3-grams in English originals. In fact, Teich points out that "[h]aving established the relation between English and German cross-linguistically comparable texts, it can be used as a basis for working on the second and third" types of comparison (2003: 2).…”

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A functional comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts

Ebeling

2017

ICAME Journal

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The study explores the potential of quantitative methods to shed light on how texts originally written in English (EO) and texts translated into English (ET) from Norwegian cluster in terms of functional classes. The object of study are sequences of three words (3-grams), classified into 15 functional categories. The investigation establishes that EO and ET do not differ significantly in half of the categories. As for the categories that do differ, two (Comparison and Spatial) are investigated in more detail, uncovering that the more frequent use of Comparison and Spatial 3-grams in ET is most likely a result of source language shining through. The findings are important in the context of both descriptive translation studies and translation-based contrastive studies. With regard to the former, the current study shows that, in many cases, ET does not seem to constitute a ‘third code’ at the level of 3-gram functions, since the same functions are equally attested in EO. As far as contrastive studies are concerned, the investigation reveals few, if any, lexico-grammatical differences between EO and ET that overturn the belief that translations are a good tertium comparationis when comparing and contrasting language systems.

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“…The main source of material is the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus+ (ENPC+) (Ebeling and Ebeling, 2013). It has the same bidirectional structure as the original ENPC, illustrated in Figure 2, but contains fiction texts only.…”

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“…Reference grammars, such as Quirk et al (1985: 321) and Huddleston andPullum (2002: 1596), agree that "for … sake" is a fixed expression. Quirk et al also suggest that the "stereotyped exclamation Oh for … 's sake expresses impatience or anger" (1985: 842n).…”

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For Pete’s sake!

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Ebeling²

2014

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In this paper we present a contrastive analysis of two similar-looking patterns in English and Norwegian that may be said to express the same meanings. Both English "for * sake" and Norwegian for * skyld have been attested with the following meanings: purpose, consideration and annoyance (used as an expletive). An analysis of bidirectional translation corpus data reveals marked crosslinguistic differences in the frequency and use of the patterns, contributing to a fair amount of non-correspondence in translation between the two languages. The in-depth contrastive analysis undertaken confirms that the two patterns behave differently in the two languages: while English prefers the expletive use, Norwegian prefers the purpose use. This observation regarding the patterns' conditions of use led to the conclusion that the two languages operate with two different extended units of meaning, and that the two patterns as such are not considered perfect translation equivalents of each other. It was therefore interesting to take a closer look at one of the patterns -the English expletive use -and its actual correspondences in Norwegian. The cross-linguistic investigation uncovers some evidence of "quasi-swearing" in the translated texts and some evidence of different ways of swearing in English in Norwegian, both in terms of how expletives are lexicalized and what they refer to, e.g. blasphemy or sexual blatancy.

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Patterns in Contrast

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Lagrangian Floer potential of orbifold spheres

Lagrangian Floer potential of orbifold spheres

A functional comparison of recurrent word-combinations in English original vs. translated texts

For Pete’s sake!

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