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Corpus-based Analysis of Participle Clauses in English and Croatian Maritime Institutional Texts

This paper analyses participle clauses in one type of specialised discourse - Maritime institutional texts. For research purposes, a bilingual corpus has been selected, consisting of two original texts and their respective translations. First of the two selected texts is the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (2006), originally written in English and translated into Croatian. The second text is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1994), also originally written in English and translated into Croatian. Participle clauses consist of an –ed or –ing participle followed by a prepositional phrase, an adverb or a direct object. They postmodify nouns and provide text coherence for the reader. They are therefore important parts of sentence structure in legal texts. This paper does not offer a mere contrastive analysis of the bilingual corpora, but provides insights into the mechanisms of translating participle clauses. Furthermore, it shows whether formal correspondence or dynamic equivalence is more adequate for this type of discourse.

Maritime institutional texts ; corpus analysis ; participle clauses ; formal correspondence ; dynamic equivalence

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