The following thesis focuses on forms that traditional German grammar designates as "Pronominaladverbien." The objective was to establish the word class under which these forms-hereafter DWPs-should fall and their syntactic role. The thesis also aims at determining which translation procedures are used when translating German DWPs into French. / As a first step, DWPs were integrated into a classification system that took into account both their proform character and their various syntactic roles. / Organizing the DWP translations into a system proved to be somewhat arduous. After reviewing various translation theories, a conclusion became unavoidable: these systems do not accommodate all the characteristics of DWPs. A new classification system was devised. / With the new system, it became possible to identify the most frequent translation procedures used for each DWP type and, at times, to explain their frequency. The conclusion of the thesis is that French manages in most cases to translate German DWPs without significant semantic loss.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.69622 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Morin, Hélène |
| Contributors | Sakayan, Dora (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of German.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001358265, proquestno: AAIMM91681, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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