Pronouns in translational Lithuanian

Lithuanian is a synthetic language with rich inflection, high morphological ambiguity, and certain archaic features no longer preserved in other Indo-European languages. Widespread software and methods developed for the analysis of English or other analytical languages often cannot be directly applied to process Lithuanian texts. As a low-resource language, it has a continuous need for the creation of new language resources, their analysis tools, and adaptation of existing software and methodological approaches. This gave an impetus to develop language resources tailored for the needs of Translation Studies such as ORVELIT13, a comparable corpus of original and translated Lithuanian fiction and popular science. In previous research, we described the composition, balance, and representativeness of the corpus (Vaičenonienė et al., 2017) and provided a quantitative analysis of the lexical and morphological features of translational Lithuanian (Vaičenonienė and Kovalevskaitė, 2019). We observed that in fiction and popular science translations from English, there are significantly more pronouns than in the original Lithuanian texts. However, it remains unclear which specific types of pronouns are over- or under-used and in which particular contexts. This paper aims to compare the distribution of specific semantic subclasses of pronouns in original and translated Lithuanian, specifically focusing on the use of dual pronouns. [...]Užsienio kalbų, lit. ir vert. s. katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta