Formative-semantic models of adjective compounds in English and Serbian

Jovanović, Vladimir

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“…Although semantic relations between elements of compounds are frequently of associative or comparative nature, what can also be observed in synthetic compounds is the relationship of semantic roles, which in turn are linked to arguments of a verb. In an in-depth analysis of English and Serbian formative and semantic aspects of adjectival compounds Jovanović (2017) established that, while English shows 32 different models of compounding adjectives, Serbian is limited to 19 such models (Jovanović, 2017: 45-46). Models 1-17 show corresponding compounding patterns in both languages, which hypothetically means that the compounds found to belong to this group may be translated into Serbian respecting both semantic and formal characteristics.…”

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Students’ Translations of Adjectival Compounds: A Corpus Analysis

Radić-Bojanić¹,

Wattles²

2020

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The aim of the paper is to analyze English language students’ translations of adjectival compounds and examine various linguistic choices, given the structural differences between English and Serbian. The research relies on a students’ corpus compiled at the University of East Sarajevo and observes the students’ translations of three texts from English into Serbian. A total of nine adjectival compounds with a similar morphological structure was excerpted (brick-faced, hand-carved, pint-sized, real-life, self-conscious, self-possessed, self-reliant, small-featured, tree-lined). Their translations might prove to be problematic for various reasons such as lack of translation equivalents, culture-specific lexemes, or differences in structural characteristics of the two languages. The paper thus provides the morphological and semantic analyses of the source vocabulary, lists the offered translations, and categorizes the adequacy of translation in the target language. Some pedagogical implications are offered in the conclusion.

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“…Pattern numbers for the purpose of this paper will be given in the order from one to seven, and will be referenced to model numbers as presented inJovanović (2017).…”

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Students’ Translations of Adjectival Compounds: A Corpus Analysis

Radić-Bojanić¹,

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Formative-semantic models of adjective compounds in English and Serbian

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Students’ Translations of Adjectival Compounds: A Corpus Analysis

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