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(8) I'm begging you to make this decision. Molim te da doneseš tu odluku. • Type 3: English construction → Serbian construction with the same verb heading verb. 7 (9) We also have very good cooperation with EUFOR. I sa EUFORom imamo veoma dobru saradnju. • Type 4: English construction → Serbian noun or no translation. (10) Stiffer penalties are among the recommendations made in a US State Department report. Oštrije kazne deo su preporuka iz izveštaja američkog Stejt departmenta. The distribution of the translation types is given in Table 1. The translations for constructions with all three verbs are given in separate tables in Appendix. Translation HAVE TAKE MAKE One word Type 1 (Verb) 13 13 7 Type 4 (Noun/deletion) 3 1 3 Phrase Type 2 (Different verb) 7 7 51 Type 3 (Same verb) 13 12 3 Total 36 33 64 Table 1: Types of Serbian translations for English light verb constructions. Discussion 7 By different heading verb we mean a verb that is not a lexical counterpart of the English verb (see footnote 2 in the previous section); same heading verb is a lexical counterpart.
We can see from Table 1 that distributions of translation types for constructions with have and take is very similar. The distribution differs for constructions with make. Type 1 can be identified as dominant model of translation for constructions with have and take, although the number of observed translations is almost same as Type 3, since a number of translations of the type 3 are simply not good translations (see Appendix). The texts that are analyzed in this research might have been translated from English to Serbian, so these translations could occur as a result of interference between the languages. The information about the direction of translation was not available for this corpus. In a further research it should be taken into account. Type 2 is clearly dominant for constructions with make. In order to see if these differences can be related to different semantics of light verbs, we compare different Serbian verbs that are used as translations of the type 1 or as heads of translations of the type 2. We try to extract abstract components of meaning that are common to the verbs that occur in translations of one English verbs. The verbs that correspond to constructions with have mostly denote some kind of state. The verbs that correspond to constructions with take denote either existence or start of existence. 8 Constructions with make are translated with verbs that denote either accomplishment or bringing into existence. (Table 2) English LVC type have take Equivalent verbs/light verbs in Serbian odraziti se, plašiti se, zainteresovati (passive), sumnjati, moći, uspeti, poštovati, planirati, pozicionirati, (passive), povezati (passive) Common abstract meaning state održati se (2), doći (do+gen) (2), uslediti, start / existence održavati se, dogoditi se, biti (gen), desiti se, preuzeti, analizirati, iskoristiti, ukazati 8 Expression take + place is very frequent in this type, which explains the choice of corresponding verb. Since there are very little other examples, a different tendency could not be identified.
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