Translating Arabic Into English
Basic Considerations in Word Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10607440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Menacere (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 606-613 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/003628ar |
| OpenAlex | W2044074952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper attempts to discuss the potential difficulties in translating Arabic into English with regard to word order. Arabic has a richer morphology than English and this enables morphological discrimination of surface grammatical relations in a way that is usually impossible in English. As a result, Arabic word order is freer than English with Arabic in general allowing any permutation of the major constituents without loss of grammatically or change in the basic cognitive meaning of the sentence. This paper looks at whether this flexibility in Arabic word order constitutes a translating problem
Arabic · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Natural language processing · Sentence · Word (group theory) · Word formation · Word order · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |