Equivalence (?) in Translation: Exploring Timelines

In this paper we present two small sets of ‘comparable bilingual’ and ‘parallel text’ corpora (Bernardini et al. 2003) composed of Greek and English web-based European Union timelines. Drawing on time thematisation in European Union texts (cf. Sidiropoulou 2004) and assuming that, with this temporal anchoring (Chen 2003), timelines in particular may unravel more or less iconically (cf. Calfoglou to appear), we explore opening entry word order patterns in the two languages. The complexity of the image obtained is discussed and differences between the two sets of data are considered in relation to establishing translation equivalence in the genre.