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Translation-specific lexicogrammar? 135
slightly higher degree of standard deviation for av in the translated texts: 0.33
against 0.24 in the original texts. These distributions may be illustrated in the
form of a diagram – Diagram 1 shows the percentage levels for av in individual
files in the Swedish original and translated subcorpora, arranged in ascending
order of frequency:
Diagram 1. Distribution of av in individual corpus text files in the Swedish original
and translated fiction parts of the ESPC
2,5
2
% of words in file
1,5
1
0,5
‘av’ in original texts
‘av’ in translated texts
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25
Files
The diagram reveals that although the number of occurrences of av is generally
higher in the translated files, the general distributions within the two respective
subcorpora are in fact quite similar to one another. The word is more frequent
in the translated texts, which is reflected as generally higher percentages for
this subcorpus, but the word has an almost equally even distribution among
translated texts as in original texts, which is reflected by the similarity of the two
graphs in the diagram. On the basis of this, it can be said that the distribution
of av is as general a phenomenon in the translated texts as in the original texts.
The next step after the establishment of the generality of the higher frequency
of av in the translated texts is to describe collocations and frameworks
incorporating the word in original and translated Swedish texts, and to define
different subtypes. The definition of groups of such patterns can then lead to
the definition of colligational patterns. For the collocations and frameworks
described below, frequencies are much lower than for av as an individual word,