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Table 3. Distribution of collocational frameworks of the type preposition +X+av in
Swedish original and translated fiction texts in the ESPC
Pattern Sw. orig. fiction Sw. trans. fiction
i + x + av ‘in’ . . . 106 165
vid + x + av ‘by’/ ‘at’ . . . 16 37
på + x + av ‘on’ / ‘at’ . . . 75 122
med + x + av ‘with’ . . . 44 82
mot + x + av ‘towards’ . . . 9 14
från + x + av ‘from’ . . . 13 21
till + x + av ‘to’ . . . 21 36
under + x + av ‘under’ . . . 5 22
efter + x + av ‘after’ . . . 3 9
Total 292 508
rendering: end and edge, butalsoside and bottom. (Thelexicalwordsinthe
right contexts are words denoting spaces of various kinds – room, garden, etc,
but also objects and some less tangible or more abstract notions, such as line
or journey). Consider the following source text examples:
at the end of the room
to the end of the garden
at the far end of the tunnel
at the other end of the table
at the other end of the train journey
on the other end of the line
to the other edge of the fence
on the far side of the room
from the far side of the lot
on the other side of town
at the bottom of the gardens
Thus, in the case of the combination änden av it is not a paradigm of SL
patterns that causes TL overrepresentation, it is instead the sheer frequency
of SL patterns that can be translated retaining the structure of the original. On
the level of individual words, there is a paradigm of nouns – end, edge, side
and bottom –thatconvergesintothenounänden in translation. But from a
structural or collocational point of view, there is more of a straight transfer, of
the noun + of pattern, and it is the transfer of this colligational pattern that
gives rise to collocational overrepresentation in the translated text.