French infinitive in Arabic translation: a usage-based approach in MTT

• Autores: Dina El Kassas
• Localización: Proceedings [of the] Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico] / David Beck (ed. lit.), Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Jasmina Milicevic (ed. lit.), Alain Polguère (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-2-9811149-0-7, págs. 147-156
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article deals with the Arabic syntactic counterparts of the French infinitive in various syntactic contexts. Special attention is paid to infinitive occurring as head of independent clause and expressing injunctive modality. Syntactic transfer is examined in order to show the necessity of a usage-based approach, which avoids giving equivalents that are grammatically correct, but weird according to common use.