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Translation-specific lexicogrammar? 139
Hunt wheezed with cruel mirth at her black elastic belt – vid åsynen av (‘at
the sight of’)
These source patterns may for instance be adverbials of different kinds, as in
the first three examples. There is also a range of structures being translated as
the TL framework with an intervening deverbal noun, as exemplified by the
second group of phrases.
In summary of the cross-linguistic analysis of this framework, it can be
said that the overrepresentation of the TL pattern is above all a result of a
source language structure being transferred in similar form in translation (SL:
preposition +NP+of –TL:preposition +NP+av). It is also to some extent
a result of various other structures being rendered as the TL structure.
4. Summary and conclusion
The main results of this study may be summarized as follows:
– Thewordav is significantly overrepresented in the translated subcorpus as
awhole.
– The distribution of av is an equally general phenomenon in the translated
texts as it is in the original texts.
– There is overrepresentation of collocational patterns as well as of collocational
frameworks including av.
– The contrastive part of the investigation indicates that the cause of overrepresentation
of the two TL patterns accounted for is a combination of
the impact of the frequency of similar SL patterns and a range of other
SL patterns, where source text frequency of similar SL patterns plays the
largest role.
The generality of occurrence of the lexical item with which collocational
patterns and frameworks are associated makes it reasonably safe to conclude
that the patterns and frameworks themselves are also fairly generally distributed,
although this awaits verification. As for the description of the treatment
of individual collocational patterns and frameworks in translation, further
qualitative study is necessary, one reason being that some SL patterns will
have a translation equivalent close at hand in the form of a fairly fixed TL
collocation, whereas for others there will be more of a paradigm of possible
solutions.