title: Relativisation of Oblique Noun Phrases in the Old Basque Texts: Translating a Typological Constraint
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metadata.value: Zaika, Natalia M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-11T16:17:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-11T16:17:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Zaika N. M. Relativisation of Oblique Noun Phrases in the Old Basque Texts: Translating a Typological Constraint. Vestnik SPbSU. Language and Literature, 2017, vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 376–388.
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8494
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In Basque, absolutive, ergative and dative NPs can be relativized, cf. egin dudan etxea ‘the house which
  I built’. Other arguments are less accessible to relativization, though sometimes it is possible. In our
  paper, we analyze translation strategies that enable us to avoid the typological constraint in question.
  The study is based on four Old Basque translations of the New Testament from Spanish and French
  Basque Country.
  The basic strategy (suffix -n used for prepositional relative clauses) is indeed rarely observed with
  oblique cases. The relative pronouns zein ‘which’ and sometimes non ‘where’ are often used instead,
  especially when relativizing genitives.
  Instead of a relative construction two independent clauses can be used as a rare strategy. Another
  translation strategy is omitting the relative clause. It is extremely marginal, most probably because the
  translator deals with a sacred text, therefore such an omission can be accounted for as an accidental
  error. Finally, to avoid the relativization of an oblique NP it is possible to reformulate the original
  sentence using a core case instead of an oblique one.
  Some of the relativization strategies observed in the Old Basque translations are well-attested
  cross-linguistically. Refs 21.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Basque
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: relative clauses
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: relative pronouns
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: verbal arguments
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation strategies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Relativisation of Oblique Noun Phrases in the Old Basque Texts: Translating a Typological Constraint
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
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