On the use of Past tenses in BCMS translations of the Bible in the 21st Century Cover Image

O upotrebi preteritnih vremena u prevodima Biblije 21. veka na BCHS jezik
On the use of Past tenses in BCMS translations of the Bible in the 21st Century

Author(s): Paul-Louis Thomas
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, Translation Studies
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: aorist; archaization; aspect (verbal); Bible; focalizator; imperfect; perfect tense; pluperfect; potential (frequentative); present (historical); translation;

Summary/Abstract: For many languages the first translations of the Bible were the beginning of standardization. The Bible was then translated again regularly in order to follow language changes and eventual restandardization: these new translations show the evolution of usage, and to some extent contribute to the further process of standardization. We discuss the use of past tenses in the same passages from ten translations of the Gospel of Mark, published in the early 21st century in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, including revised editions of former translations, which will give us a broader view of the restructuring aspectual-temporal system in the BCMS (bosnian, croatian, montenegrin, serbian) language.

  • Issue Year: II/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-87
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian