A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE ARABIC AND ENGLISH VERB TENSE AND ASPECT A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH
Journal: PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences (Vol.3, No. 3)Publication Date: 2017-11-15
Authors : Jawharah Alasmari; Janet C.E. Watson; Eric Atwell;
Page : 1604-1615
Keywords : Arabic Verb; Verb Corpus; Translation;
Abstract
There is so far only limited research that applies a corpus-based approach to the study of the Arabic language. The primary purpose of this paper is therefore to explore the verb systems of Arabic and English using the Quranic Arabic Corpus, focussing on their similarities and differences in tense and aspect as expressed by verb structures and their morphology. Understanding the use of different verb structures, participles, and auxiliary verbs that are used to indicate time and actions may be one way to improve translation quality between Arabic and English. In order to analyse these forms, a sub-corpus of two Arabic verb forms and their translations in English were created. The Arabic verbs and their English translations were then compared and analysed in terms of syntactic and morphological features. The following English translations of the Quran were used: Sahih International, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Shakir, Muhammad Sarwar, Mohsin Khan, Arberry. The analysis shows a considerable disagreement between the Arabic verb tense and aspect, and their translations. This suggests that translating Arabic verbs into English is fraught with difficulty. The analysis of the corpus data can be categorised and calculated and can then potentially be used to improve the translation between the two languages.
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