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Date: 22 May 2006
From:hgadalla at yahoo.com
Subject:New Article

Dear Colleagues,

I'm pleased to announce the appearance of my new
article: "Arabic Imperfect Verbs in Translation:
A Corpus Study of English Renderings" in META: Journal
des Traducteurs, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2006, pp. 51-71

This paper proposes a model for translating Standard
Arabic imperfect verbs into English based on their
contextual references. It starts with a brief
introduction to tense and aspect in English and
Arabic. Then, it shows the study aim and technique.
After that, it provides an analysis of the study
results by discussing the various translations of
Arabic imperfect verbs in the translations of two
novels written by Naguib Mahfouz. The study compares
the translations with the original texts to highlight
the different English renderings of the Arabic
imperfect verbs. A corpus of 430 sentences was
randomly chosen from the two novels, 215 sentences
from each novel. The structures in which Arabic
imperfect verbs occur are classified into ten classes.
For each class, the various English translations are
provided with a count of the examples representing
them in the corpus and their percentages. Then, the
contextual reference of each translation is explained
and commented on.

Hassan Gadalla

Hassan Gadalla
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Faculty of Education for Girls at Al-Baha
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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