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Chuquet, Hélène and Michel Paillard. 2006. Les adjectifs composés en X + V + -ing : prédication, collocations, traductions [X + V + -ing compound adjectives: predicates, collocations, translations]. In Vautherin, Béatrice. La traduction de l’adjectif composé: de la micro-syntaxe au fait de style [The translation of compound adjectives: from micro syntax to style]. Palimpsestes 19.
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Article in jnl/bk
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French
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This article looks at the various ways of translating English X + V + -ing compound adjectives into French. The differences between English and French in terms of word-formation patterns are highly relevant to this class of compound adjectives, as evidenced by the range of equivalents represented in bilingual dictionaries. A quantitative and qualitative contrastive analysis of a bi-directional parallel corpus of journalistic and literary texts confirms the existence of regular patterns in translation strategies. It also offers insights into certain genre-specific uses of these compound adjectives and highlights their distinctive role as markers of point of view.
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