DIVERGENCES IN THE GRAMMATICAL PATTERNS OF REPRESENTATION FOR A NUMBER OF REFERENTS AS A CHALLENGE FOR AN ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN TRANSLATOR

Authors

  • Liudmyla ZAHORODNIA Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University
  • Nataliia PASICHNYK Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University
  • Olha PAVLENKO National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
  • Anastasiia SYZENKO Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Iryna DIDENKO Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Nataliia ZHORNIAK Lviv Polytechnic National University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52846/aucssflingv.v46i1-2.158

Keywords:

the grammatical category of number, interchangeability of opposite grammatical members, substitution of members of the category

Abstract

The article deals with the rendering of the singular and plural forms of an English noun into Ukrainian and investigates the reasons for divergence between numbers in the source and the target texts. The cases of interchangeability of the singular and the plural forms are analysed. The divergence in number forms is caused by different rules of word combining in some syntactical patterns in English and Ukrainian. The plural is supposed to be used when rendering the so-called “common number” of an English denotative noun in the singular. The authors also describe the stylistic functions of the plural form in the target and source languages.

Published

2025-02-18

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1-2 (2024): Analele Universităţii din Craiova, Seria ŞTIINŢE FILOLOGICE, LINGVISTICĂ, ANUL XLVI Nr. 1-2, 2024

Section

Articles