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Publication details [#2505]
Ménacère, Karim M. 1995. Translating Arabic into English: basic considerations in word order. In Mejri, Salah and Taïeb Baccouche, eds. La traduction dans le monde arabe [Translation in the Arabic world]. Special issue of Meta. Journal des Traducteurs, Translators' Journal 45 (3): 606–617. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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English
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Abstract
This paper attempts to discuss the potential difficulties in translating Arabic into English with regard to word order. Arabic has a richer morphology than English and this enables morphological discrimination of surface grammatical relations in a way that is usually impossible in English. As a result, Arabic word order is freer than English with Arabic in general allowing any permutation of the major constituents without loss of grammaticality or change in the basic cognitive meaning of the sentence. This paper looks at whether this flexibility in Arabic constitutes a translating problem.
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