THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE IN ENGLISH FUCTIONING AS A PREDICATIVE ADJUNCT AND ITS EQUIVALENTS IN MACEDONIAN Cover Image

СЕГАШНИОТ ПАРТИЦИП ВО АНГЛИСКИОТ ЈАЗИК ВО ФУНКЦИЈА НА АДЈУНКТ НА ПРЕДИКАЦИЈАТА И НЕГОВИТЕ ЕКВИВАЛЕНТИ ВО МАКЕДОНСКИОТ ЈАЗИК
THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE IN ENGLISH FUCTIONING AS A PREDICATIVE ADJUNCT AND ITS EQUIVALENTS IN MACEDONIAN

Author(s): Katerina Vidova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: present participle; adjunct; predication; translation equivalent

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the use of the present participle in English as a predicative adjunct and its Macedonian translation equivalents. The English present participle is widely used in a position after the predicate in a sentence. The research is focused on the present participle used predicatively. The research is conducted on a corpus of sentences, excerpted from English and American literature and their Macedonian translation equivalents. Consequently, comparative and descriptive methods have been used to analyze the excerpted sentences. The results show that mostly the present participle and the present participle clauses having the role of the predicative adjunct are translated into Macedonian with a verbal adverb and clauses with verbal adverb functioning as adverbial manner clauses. However, there are also examples in which the present participle is translated with a verbal adjective, also having the function of adverbial manner clauses. Besides the present participle clauses translated into Macedonian with a verbal adverb and verbal adjective there are clauses with a verb in Present, clauses with a verb in Aorist, clauses with a verb in Imperfect, clauses with ‘da’-construction, clauses with prepositional phrases and temporal adverbial clauses.

  • Issue Year: 18/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 236-252
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Macedonian