This essay concerns two kinds of nominal style: nominalizations and extended attributes in front of nouns. The aim of this essay is to translate a German text, taken from a book on Greek art, and investigate how many extended attributes in front of nouns and how many nominalizations there really are. It will also be studied how they are translated into Swedish and which strategies are being used in the translation. Is there a difference between Swedish and German use of nominalizations and extended attributes? The extended attributes are divided into three groups: extended adjectives, extended present participles end extended past participles. Then the three groups are further categorized as to how they are translated into Swedish. The nominalizations are also divided into different groups, depending on how they are constructed: infinitives, the suffixes - The conclusion drawn from this analysis is that German extended attributes are translated in many different ways. When it comes to adjectives, the most common way to translate is to keep the extended attribute and translate word by word. The participles are more split between the categories relative clauses, verb phrases, adjective attributes and prepositional phrases. The word by word translation was not so common among the participles. When it comes to the German nominalizations, the two equally common ways to translate are to keep the nominalization or to rephrase it to a verb phrase. Keywords: Translation, extended attributes, noun, nominalization, noun phrase ung, -t, -er, -e, Ø, present participles and past participles. Quantification is made to show which type of translation is the most common on extended attributes and nominalizations. In the German text there are 54 extended attributes and 73 nominalizations. The different strategies of translation by Vinay and Darbelnet were used in the analysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-8298 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Petersson, Malin |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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