Synthetic Verbs in English and French
الباحث الأول:
Ekhlas Ali Mohsin
المجلة:
Journal of Al-Frahedi's Arts, 4, no. 13: Tikrit University
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
It has always been difficult for language learners to relate a particular item from a given language with its appropriate equivalent counterpart in another language. And, this difficulty
appears more clearly and mainly when bilinguals try to transl…
It has always been difficult for language learners to relate a particular item from a given language with its appropriate equivalent counterpart in another language. And, this difficulty
appears more clearly and mainly when bilinguals try to translate an expression from one language to the other.
The present paper is an attempt to relate the English socalled synthetic verb and its equivalent analytic construction with their equivalent counterparts in French and vice versa.
The paper consists of two parts: the first is a set of preliminaries about these two expressions in English- their definitions, formation processes and patterns; the second is a paralleling analytical survey between these expressions in English and their equivalent counterparts in French and vice versa. Along the second part, two main Internet resources are used to support the researcher's work- the Google Translate website and a collection of poems by the French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). Choosing Rimbaud in particular is due to the fact that the researcher has previously achieved a study about him and his poetry; besides there is a website containing his poems in French and in English, the matter that shall facilitate the process of conducting this study.
It is also worth mentioning that the preliminaries in this paper are basically based on a previously achieved study by the researcher, namely a Master's thesis entitled "TheProduction of English Synthetic and Analytic Constructions by Iraqi College Students".
Finally, a set of conclusions arrived at by the researcher is to be stated at the end of the paper.
