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Peer reviewedSalager, Francoise – Russian Language Journal, 1982
Compares the use of English compound tenses and Russian tense-aspect combinations in English and Russian scientific writing. Concludes that to convey the proper meaning, English translations of Russian technical texts should contain more uses of the conditional or subjunctive than appear in the original. (EKN)
Descriptors: English, Russian, Technical Writing, Translation
Peer reviewedSalager, Francoise – Russian Language Journal, 1980
Discusses two types of compounding formation in Russian and English used in the technical literature of both languages: (1) thematic, where two words are joined with a vowel between them; and (2) athematic, where no vowel is used. An English example of thematic compounding is "electrochemistry"; an athematic example is…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Russian, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
