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Russian Verbal Aspect as a Problem of German-Russian and Russian-German Translation

  • Larissa Naiditsch EMAIL logo and Anna Pavlova
From the journal Lebende Sprachen

Abstract

The differences in Russian and German verb systems cause problems in translation. In translation from German one of Russian aspectual forms has to be chosen, whereby, as is shown, several criteria are useful: the right and the left context, the accordance of several verbs in a phrase, and semantic nuances of the verb itself. The problems of translating from Russian into German were treated with the help of an experiment. A questionnaire of Russian sentences was given to bilingual students who were asked to translate them into German. The informants rendered the Russian aspect by lexical means, some of them being close to grammatical but not grammaticalized, sometimes also by the alternations of terminative and cursive verbs.

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Published Online: 2016-10-14
Published in Print: 2016-10-1

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