研究生英语翻译课程培训translation3汇编.pptVIP

Linguistic Difference and Translation Strategies(1) Lecture 3 Part I Linguistic difference 1.? Inflection/non-inflection 2．Flexibility/stiffness 3. Bottom heavy/top heavy A synthetic language is “characterized by frequent and systematic use of inflected（ 词尾变化） forms to express grammatical relationships.”(Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) An analytic language is “characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms.” 1. Inflection/non-inflection