Translators working from Finnish to Russian often have problems finding equivalents for the Finni... more Translators working from Finnish to Russian often have problems finding equivalents for the Finnish words iltapäivä ('afternoon') and aamupäivä (a similar expression denoting the time before noon). I argue that this problem is due to fundamental differences in how the day is divided into smaller segments in Finnish and Russian. To show this, three sets of possible equivalents were compared with iltapäivä and aamupäivä. All of them were found problematic in some respect, especially in cases where aamupäivä or iltapäivä are used as grammatical subjects or otherwise referentially. This leads to the conclusion that rather than translating single words or expressions, the translator is in fact transitioning between different systems of expressing time.
The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of approp... more The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of appropriate data and resources. To compensate for this problem, we present two parallel corpora of literary texts: one is Russian-Finnish and the other Finnish-Russian. Russian and Finnish present a rare case where bilateral cultural relations exist between a 'large' and a 'small' language, and works of fiction are regularly translated in both directions. The proposed resources are being actively developed with the aim of building a single bidirectional parallel corpus that will be of interest to both translation studies and contrastive linguistics. (in Slovak:) The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of appropriate data and resources. To compensate for this problem, we present two parallel corpora of literary texts: one is Russian-Finnish and the other
The myth about the ideal translation being as 'literal' as possible has been discussed as long as... more The myth about the ideal translation being as 'literal' as possible has been discussed as long as translations have been studied. This article addresses the myth of literariness by examining how often and in what kind of circumstances translators tend to vary the location of adverbials of time when translating from Finnish to Russian and from Russian to Finnish. Two parallel corpora are used as the research material of the study. The research data for the article have been focused to include only SV clauses with a nominative subject. Overall, no major differences were found between the two SL-TL pairs in how often the original position of the adverbial is retained and how often it is changed by the translator. However, attempts have been made to determine when the possibly committed change of the adverbial position is grammatically inescapable and when it is more likely to be the result of the translator's tendency to vary the structure of the SL clause. It is noted that the original position of the adverbial is actually retained in cases where one would expect the target language's grammar would force a move to another position. This tendency appears to be more prominent in translations from Russian to Finnish.
Translators working from Finnish to Russian often have problems finding equivalents for the Finni... more Translators working from Finnish to Russian often have problems finding equivalents for the Finnish words iltapäivä ('afternoon') and aamupäivä (a similar expression denoting the time before noon). I argue that this problem is due to fundamental differences in how the day is divided into smaller segments in Finnish and Russian. To show this, three sets of possible equivalents were compared with iltapäivä and aamupäivä. All of them were found problematic in some respect, especially in cases where aamupäivä or iltapäivä are used as grammatical subjects or otherwise referentially. This leads to the conclusion that rather than translating single words or expressions, the translator is in fact transitioning between different systems of expressing time.
The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of approp... more The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of appropriate data and resources. To compensate for this problem, we present two parallel corpora of literary texts: one is Russian-Finnish and the other Finnish-Russian. Russian and Finnish present a rare case where bilateral cultural relations exist between a 'large' and a 'small' language, and works of fiction are regularly translated in both directions. The proposed resources are being actively developed with the aim of building a single bidirectional parallel corpus that will be of interest to both translation studies and contrastive linguistics. (in Slovak:) The research of translations from and into minor languages is often limited by the lack of appropriate data and resources. To compensate for this problem, we present two parallel corpora of literary texts: one is Russian-Finnish and the other
The myth about the ideal translation being as 'literal' as possible has been discussed as long as... more The myth about the ideal translation being as 'literal' as possible has been discussed as long as translations have been studied. This article addresses the myth of literariness by examining how often and in what kind of circumstances translators tend to vary the location of adverbials of time when translating from Finnish to Russian and from Russian to Finnish. Two parallel corpora are used as the research material of the study. The research data for the article have been focused to include only SV clauses with a nominative subject. Overall, no major differences were found between the two SL-TL pairs in how often the original position of the adverbial is retained and how often it is changed by the translator. However, attempts have been made to determine when the possibly committed change of the adverbial position is grammatically inescapable and when it is more likely to be the result of the translator's tendency to vary the structure of the SL clause. It is noted that the original position of the adverbial is actually retained in cases where one would expect the target language's grammar would force a move to another position. This tendency appears to be more prominent in translations from Russian to Finnish.
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