Unique Items Hypothesis: comparing several translators' translations and original writing

This thesis examines the unique items hypothesis using material which consists of contemporary Czech iction and Czech translations of iction from English. The research is based on a comparable corpus comprising original Czech texts and translations produced by the same authors. The analysis focuses on selected lexical, morphological and syntactic phenomena considered to be unique to Czech. Their frequency is examined through statistical testing, and comparisons of individual categories are supplemented by brief qualitative analyses. The results suggest that most of the examined unique items can be found less frequently in translations than in original texts, which is in line with previous indings for the Czech-English language pair. Keywords Unique items hypothesis, translation universals, descriptive translation studies, corpus analysis, translated Czech