Guest lecture by Stefan Dedio on tracing language contact in parallel corpora at HU Berlin
The talk at Humboldt-Universität Berlin titled "Kasus, Kontakt, Credo: Spuren linguistischer Konvergenz in einem Parallelkorpus nordwesteuropäischer Übersetzungen des Athanasischen Glaubensbekenntnisses" provides an overview of the problems and possibilities of tracing language contact in parallel texts, using a corpus of about 30 translations of the Athanasian Creed into the languages of North-Western Europe, covering a time span of 14 centuries.