On the use of identical transformations for some unrelated languages in the process of translation

hereby we reveal the possibility of using grammatical verb tenses, in the context of compound verbal predicates, as the basis for conducting structural approaches in such unrelated languages as Russian, Arabic and English. The work of fiction chosen for conducting our comparative analysis is “The Master and Margarita”, a famous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, and a number of its translations into Arabic and English. We analyze 15 Arabic compound verbal predicates along with the corresponding syntagmas in the Russian origin and English translation. Considering the concept of absolute time same as the necessary semantic and grammatical patterns, our goal is to identify identical transformations in the process of translation from Russian into either Arabic or English to achieve the required equivalence of translation considering reflection of time of action with its characteristics determined by the original Russian text.

compound predicate, translation transformations, comparative analysis, grammatical universals