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Subject Transformations In The Translation Of Literary Texts

Table 1: Types of subjects

Type of subject Example
1 Agentive subject Master rabotayet (The master is working)
2 Statual subject Rebenok spit (The child is sleeping)U sestry gripp (My sister has the flu)Yemu kholodno (He is cold)Bol'nogo znobit (The patient is shivering)
3 Qualitative subject Dom – bez kryshi (The house is without a roof)Stariku pod sem'desyat (The old man is in his seventies)U sestry vzdornyy kharakter (My sister has a feisty personality)
4 Quantitative subject Mal'chikov chetvero (There are four boys)Komarov naletelo (Mosquitoes have flown)
5 Subject of possession On raspolagayet sredstvami (He has the means)U sosedey sad (The neighbors have a garden)
6 Existential subject Ivanov prisutstvuyet (Ivanov is present)Vody net (There is no water)
7 Thematic subject S biletami povezlo (We got lucky with the tickets)
8 Comparative subject Volga dlinneye Dona (The Volga is longer than the Don)
9 Qualification subject Brat – moryak (Brother is a sailor)Kiparis otnositsya k vechnozelonym rasteniyam (Cypress is an evergreen plant)
10 Functive subject Chasy idut (The clock is running)Garmon' igrayet (The harmonica is playing)
11 Perceptive subject Okhotnik slyshit shorokh (The hunter hears a rustle)Yemu chudyatsya golosa (He loves voices)
12 Emotive subject Pete nravitsya Masha (Petya likes Masha)Detyam nadoyela shkola (The kids are tired of school)
13 Sociative subject On mne otets (He is my father)Ona yemu nachal'nik (She is his boss)
14 Locative subject Na dvore solnechno (It's sunny outside)Za oknom metel' (There is a blizzard outside the window)
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