Grammatical Synonymy with Present Tenses in
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Grammatical Synonymy with Present Tenses in Translations from English into Romanian
Grammatical Synonymy with Present Tenses in Translations from English into Romanian

Author(s): Anca Florina Lipan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: similarity; grammatical synonymy; translation; time; tense

Summary/Abstract: Language expressiveness is based on the variety of linguistic alternatives that convey thesame or almost the same meaning. Out of all these variations, the grammatical synonymyoccurring between the different ways of expressing time will be analyzed with a view to pointto the variety of expressions that the speaker has at his/her disposal in order to adjustaccording to his/her purposes. Present time can be expressed by means of different tenses inboth English and Romanian, which emphasizes the correspondences between the twolanguage systems as revealed in the process of translation. Therefore, the main interest will beto analyze the synonymy between the values expressed by the different Present Tenses in bothlanguages and literary translations will provide the practical approach to the matter.

  • Issue Year: 20/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 86-94
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English, Romanian