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Structural effects of English-German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles Bisiada, Mario Language contact in translation Translation and language change Corpus-based translation studies Business translation Concessive constructions Studies on a variety of languages have observed a shift away from/nhypotactic, hierarchical structures towards paratactic, incremental structures,/nand have attributed this to language contact with English in translation. This/npaper investigates such a shift towards parataxis as the preferred structure of/nconcessive constructions in German business articles. To this effect, a diachronic/ncorpus method that has been applied to popular science articles in existing/nstudies is adopted and applied to business articles, in an attempt to reproduce/nexisting findings for this genre. This method is complemented by a corpus of/nmanuscripts which allow to control for the effect of editing on the translated/ntexts. Based on the analysis of hypotactic and paratactic translations of English/nconcessive conjunctions between 1982/83 and 2008, I argue that hypotactic/nstructures are indeed used less frequently in translated texts, but that this/ndevelopment is restricted to translated language. In non-translated texts, the/nuse of hypotactic conjunctions has increased. The use of sentence-initial conjunctions,/nhowever, does seem to spread in this genre (as was reported for/npopular science), which may be further evidence for it to be a case of language/nchange through contact in translation. 2016-04-14T07:08:54Z 2016-04-14T07:08:54Z 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Text & Talk. 2016; 36(2):133−154. ©2016, Mario Bisiada. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons/nAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess De Gruyter