Comment traduire l’inexistant: définitude/indéfinitude des syntagmes binominaux
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2000
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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How to translate the non-existent. Definiteness/indefiniteness of binomial syntagms
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The article deals with the problem of criteria to be followed in the translation of Slavic noun phrases that
have no overt markers of definiteness/indefiniteness into a language with articles.
It is affirmed that the category of semantic defmiteness/indefiniteness is not restricted to languages with
articles and therefore the initial criterion is furnished by sense, or more precisely, by the relations between
the intention of the noun phrase and the intention determined by its position. These relations determine
intentional completeness or incompleteness, tantamount to definiteness and indefiniteness, respectively.
Because of the fact that there is no one-to-one correspondence between semantic definiteness or indefiniteness
and their surface reflexes, the translator must furthermore follow the idiomatic rules that govern
the assignment of definiteness markers to particular semantic categories.
Selected parallelisms between semantic and formal rules are illustrated with equivalences between Slavic
(Polish and Russian) noun phrases and their translations in French.
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2000, vol. 25/26, pp. 183-192
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83-232-1270-8
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0137-2475