Chapter published in:
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empiriqueEdited by Eric Corre, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa 35] 2020
► pp. 12–37
De la sémantique des temps verbaux à la traductologie
Une comparaison multilingue de L’Étranger de Camus
Martijn van der Klis | Utrecht University
Bert Le Bruyn | Utrecht University
Henriëtte de Swart | Utrecht University
We develop a linguistic analysis of the
distribution and meaning of the verb forms used to translate the
Passé Composé in Italian, German, Dutch,
Spanish, English and Greek. To achieve this, we carry out a
multilingual comparison of tense use in L’Étranger,
based on an exploration of data extracted from the original and its
translations. We apply Multidimensional Scaling
(Wälchli & Cysouw,
2012) to generate a cartographic visualization of the
verb forms in the multilingual dataset. The subset relation emerging
from the temporal maps links the decrease of the perfect to
an increase of past tenses. The investigation of key
examples shows how lexical, compositional and dynamic semantics
interact and lead to the observed cross-linguistic variation in
perfect and past tense use.
Keywords: perfect, past, multilingual comparison, semantics, Multidimensional Scaling
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/lis.35.02van
https://doi.org/10.1075/lis.35.02van
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