This article presents the Diachronic Corpus of Chilean Spanish (CoDiECh), the first historical and digital corpus devoted to the study of the Chilean variety of Spanish (https://codiech.ucm.cl/). The project aims to provide a documentary base representative of the national printed tradition—both literary and non-literary—designed for the linguistic analysis of Chilean Spanish mainly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This description emphasizes the need for a historical corpus exclusively focused on Chilean Spanish, examines the conception and development of the idea of a diachronic corpus within the Chilean philological tradition, and systematizes the main features of the CoDiECh: corpus size, working methodology, search interface and development, temporal span, and discursive and geographical diversity. Finally, it contrasts CoDiECh with other existing corpora—especially CDH—and includes exploratory analyses of distinctive linguistic features of Chilean Spanish. In conclusion, it outlines future projections, such as the incorporation of new materials to achieve better chronological balance, and highlights the most significant aspects of the project, particularly its pioneering nature and its relevance for the study of vernacular Spanish.
This study focuses on legal translation between Spanish and Chinese, utilizing parallel and comparable corpora created for this purpose. On one hand, it attempts to validate the influence of translation direction on the phenomenon of explicitation, as proposed by Pápai (2004) and Ke Fei (2005). On the other hand, it employs the gravitational pull hypothesis proposed by Halverson (2007, 2010) to explain the cognitive basis of explicitation. For this purpose, conditional clauses introduced by “si” in Spanish have been selected as the main object of investigation, using tools like AntConc to analyze the created corpora. According to the statistical data obtained, a tendency towards explicitation has been ob served in the translation from Spanish to Chinese in conditional clauses introduced by ruò (若), while, in the translation from Chinese to Spanish, a similar tendency has been identified in the use of the present indicative for conditional clauses introduced by “si”. Additionally, there is a strong correlation between the pull of the source language, the magnetic force of the target language, and the relationship between the two, as postulated in the gravitational pull hypothesis.
