Full Description
The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobiographies from the late nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. Many of the original Welsh texts contain stylistic features which, in a context of intense bilingualism with English, benefit from the deliberate discussion and analysis in this volume. However, the work is intentionally descriptive rather than prescriptive, laying out patterns that are observed in the corpus, and making them available to Welsh writers and translators to adopt if or as required. As similarly the classic work in the field by Vinay and Darbelnet, this book examines its topics through the lens of translation techniques such as transposition, modulation and adaptation.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Rhagair/Preface
Chapter I: Comparative Stylistics and Translation Techniques
Chapter II: Nouns and Pronouns
Chapter III: Prepositions
Chapter IV: Welsh Possessive Constructions
Chapter V: Issues in the Verb Phrase: Tense/Mood/Aspect and Modality
Chapter VI: Phrasal Verbs
Chapter VII: Cael and Get
Chapter VIII: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter IX: Lexical Issues: Word formation and collocations
Chapter X: Welsh Verbless Clauses and Verb-noun Clauses
Chapter XI: Information Structure: Topics and Focus
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