A comparative analysis of syntactic complexity in English academic texts by Chinese MTI trainee translators and native academic writers
This paper aims to investigate the differences in syntactic complexity between academic English translation by Chinese MTI trainee translators (TTAE) and academic English by native writers (NAE). The study is based on two self-built corpora and employs the L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (L2SCA) to analyze syntactic c...