Koskeeko kääntäjä sanajärjestykseen? Suomen ja venäjän ajanilmaukset esimerkkinä

Authors

• Juho Härme Tampereen yliopisto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61200/mikael.129488

Keywords:

parallel corpora, word order, contrastive analysis

Abstract

The myth about the ideal translation being as “literal” as possible has been discussed as long as translations have been studied. This article addresses the myth of literariness by examining how often and in what kind of circumstances translators tend to vary the location of adverbials of time when translating from Finnish to Russian and from Russian to Finnish. Two parallel corpora are used as the research material of the study. The study used research data which focused only on SV clauses with a nominative subject. Overall, no major differences were found between the two SL-TL pairs in how often the original position of the adverbial is retained and how often it is changed by the translator. However, attempts have been made to determine when the possibly committed change of the adverbial position is grammatically inescapable and when it is more likely to be the result of the translator’s tendency to vary the structure of the SL clause. It is noted that the original position of the adverbial is actually retained in cases where one would expect the target language’s grammar would force a move to another position. This tendency appears to be more prominent in translations from Russian to Finnish.