About the translation of Chinese aspectual particle GUO into Portuguese based on a Chinese-Portuguese parallel corpus
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Chinese Aspectual Particle, GUO, Translation, Parallel Corpus, PortugueseAbstract
Theresearchwork,whichwepresenthere,seekstoanalysetheconversionoptionsoftheChineseaspectualparticleguointoPortuguese.InChinese,theaspectualparticleguoappearsafterverbs,expressingtheactionsinthepastandindicatingtheexperientialaspect.AsinPortuguesethereisnosuchwordcategory,thefunctionsperformedbythisChineseaspectualparticle,duringthetranslation,aretransmittedinPortuguesethroughdifferentsyntacticandlexicalresources.ToverifytheconversionoptionsofthisaspectualparticleintoPortuguese,weusedaparallelcorpusconsistingofChineseandPortuguesetexts,withChinesebeingthesourcelanguageandPortuguesethetargetlanguage.Byanalysingtheresultsfoundinthecorpusinrelationtotheuseoftheaspectualparticleguo,wesoughttodiscussthepossibleconversionorientationsofthisaspectualparticleintoPortugueseand,inthisway,wehopetohelptranslatorstounderstandandtomasterthesepossibleconversions.
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