Subordination and coordination in English-Arabic translation

الملخص EN

Subordination and coordination are two syntactic features that are Employed in writing in both English and Arabic.

It is often argued, however, that the two languages dffir in their preference for either syntactic relation (Cf, Introduction and Note 3).

English, it is said, makes use of more subordination than coordination, while Arabic favors the use of coordination rather than subordination.

The present paper does not aim to prove or disprove this claim.

Its main focus is finding out how these syntactic relations are dealt with in English-Arabic translation in general.

To achieve this aim, the research makes use of three types of corpus; Texts originally written in English, texts originally written in Arabic, and texts translatedfrom English into Arabic.

The texts surveyed are takenfrom dffirent disciplines.

The reason behind this is that the researcher wants to get to a generalization about the hypothesis qbove.

In other words, by varying the texts, the researcher wants to get to general remarles from which several researches could be triggered.

In each of the texts at hand, the instances of subordination and coordination were countedo.

The numbers of occurrences were then turned into ratios and the results of the three parts of the corpus were compared so as to know whether the translated texts are more like those originally written in English or those originally written in Arabic, Recommendations conclude the paper.