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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820845203321

Titolo

The expression of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Albert Camus's L'étranger and its translations : an empirical study = L'étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME) : etude empirique / / edited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville, Huy Linh Dao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 388 pages)

Collana

Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; ; Volume 35

Disciplina

843.914

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense

Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect

Modality (Linguistics)

Evidentials (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison through the use of parallel corpora. It has five main parts: the first two offer insights into perfect and imperfect tenses in Indo-European languages; the third part shifts the focus on non Indo-European languages; the fourth part deals with modality, and the last part is more translation-oriented. These contents make this book a valuable contribution in semantic micro-typology. In terms of readership, both linguists and specialists in translation, as well as literature scholars, can benefit from the contributions presented in this book. It also relates to other usage-based, corpus-driven studies of TAME phenomena, and to monographs that take as their object of



study the use of corpus linguistics in translation studies.