Some Problems about Translation into French of the Romanian adverb mai Cover Image

Quelques problèmes posés par la traduction en français de l’adverbe roumain mai
Some Problems about Translation into French of the Romanian adverb mai

Author(s): Gilles Bardy, Romana Timoc-Bardy
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Adverb, Desemantisation, Grammaticalisation, Comparative Linguistics of Romance Languages, subduction, translation, adverbe, désémantisation, grammaticalisation, linguistique comparée des langues romanes, subduction, traduction, adverb, desemantizare

Summary/Abstract: This paper studies some of the main utilisations of the Romanian adverb mai (< lat. magis) in connection with his translation into French. In the most interesting cases, mai is in a state of desemantisation (subduction), and has a semantic action upon the verb (aspect, modality, expression of speaker’s attitude). In these cases, mai cannot be translated by a specific word and the research of translation must be reported on the verb.

  • Issue Year: X/2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 205-212
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian