Probabilistic Grammar in Translation

Silvana Maria de JESUS
Adriana Silvina PAGANO
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/CAPES)

ABSTRACT: Adopting a systemic-functional approach to translation studies, this paper focus on probabilistic grammar (Halliday, 1991, Matthiessen, 2001), developing the concept of conditioned probabilities (Catford, 1965) through the investigation of translation equivalence in a fictional multilingual parallel corpus.

KEY-WORDS: Translation studies, probabilistic grammar, translation equivalence, translation techniques, multilingual parallel corpus.