| Abstract [eng] |
This study deals with problems of translation of collocations between German and Lithuanian. The syntactic pattern under analysis is Verb + (Preposition) + Noun, i.e. so-called verbal-nominal constructions in German. The aim of the study is to contrast the two languages and identify translation problems as well as propose appropriate solutions. Methodology used for the analysis involves descriptive, contrastive and corpus linguistics approaches, including processing of various quantitative and qualitative data. The material analysed in the dissertation consists of ca. 4,000 constructions. A parallel corpus of 1 million words was used. It was compiled from texts of fiction, popular science writing and administrative office communication. 651 construction types of the chosen pattern were identified in the corpus with the total frequency of tokens of 1230 items. The analysis was focused on the translation of individual types of constructions which often pose a number of difficulties at the level of form and meaning. Owing to the fact that translators between German and Lithuanian have only one German-Lithuanian dictionary at their disposal, the study also involves a critical revision of this lexicographic tool which, as it was found, often contains inadequate information on collocations. The author proposes a model of a bilingual electronic data base as a more advanced tool for the translation of verbal-nominal constructions. |
