Examples of Constructions with the Simple Topological English Prepositions in and at Expressed in Selected Slavic Languages

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  • Dorota Chłopek University of Bielsko-Biała, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , Univerza v Bielskem-Biali, Fakulteta za humanistiko in družbene vede

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.2.1.59–72.2009

Keywords:

topological constructions, prepositions, locational, functional coincidence, translation

Abstract

The objects of study in this paper are selected English expressions with the simple topological prepositions in and at expressed in the following Slavic languages: Polish, Czech, Slovene, Serbian and Croatian. Simple locational, topological relations which the English language encodes through two separate prepositions in and at tend to be constructed by a single form in many Slavic languages. The concerns of the paper are selected English constructions expressing physical coincidence through in and functional coincidence through at, rendered into the five Slavic languages, where the scenes may not include the difference in dimensionality existing in the source expressions, which causes many translational problems.

Author Biography

  • Dorota Chłopek, University of Bielsko-Biała, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univerza v Bielskem-Biali, Fakulteta za humanistiko in družbene vede

    Bielsko-Biała, Poland. E-mail: dorotach@ath.bielsko.pl

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09.10.2020

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Chłopek, D. (2020). Examples of Constructions with the Simple Topological English Prepositions in and at Expressed in Selected Slavic Languages. Slavia Centralis, 2(1), 59–72. https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.2.1.59–72.2009

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