Создание русско-тувинского параллельного подкорпуса электронного корпуса тувинского языка: первые итоги

Aelita Ya. Salchak; Valentina S. Ondar

doi:10.25178/nit.2020.1.6

Authors

Aelita Ya. Salchak Tuvan State University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2304-6901
Valentina S. Ondar Tuvan State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-7720

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.1.6

Keywords:

Tuvan language; Russian language; translated literature; corpus linguistics; electronic corpus; electronic corpus of Tuvan language; parallel text

Abstract

The article presents preliminary outcomes of setting up a subcorpus of parallel texts in Russia and Tuvan, which is to become part of the electronic corpus of Tuvan language. The work on the subcorpus is being carried out at the Research and Education Center for Turkic Studies at the Tuvan State University.

The subcorpus includes data from a certain number of works of literature translated from Russian into Tuvan. They were written by foreign authors or those from the ethnic republics of the Soviet Union, and then translated into Tuvan. For sources, the corpus relies on the collections of the National Library of Tuva and Tuvan State University, which together have over 700 works of literature that fall within this group.

The Russian-Tuvan parallel text subcorpus includes, among other works, M.Yu. Lermontov’s “A Hero of Our Times”, M.A. Sholokhov’s “Virgin Soil Upturned”, V.P. Katayev’s “I am the Son of the Nation of Labour”, A.P. Chekhov’s “Man in a Case”, A.A. Fadeev’s “The Young Guard”, Maxim Gorky’s “The Rendez Vous”, B.A. Vasilyev’s “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, Ye. Ilyina’s “Fourth Height”. As of 2019, the total volume of the corpus is 7631813 word samples.

The article provides examples of alignment of Russian and Tuvan parallel texts, with a focus on how words referring to ethnospecific realities are translated into Tuvan. A comparative analysis of Russian-Tuvan parallel texts allows researchers to assess the adequacy of translation, the difficulty of translating vocabulary belonging to the ethnically and culturally specific group of “reality words”, as well as the lexical, semantic and stylistical transformation as a result of translation.

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