English translation of modern Chinese verbal ＂-le＂ --A study based on English-Chinese ＆ Chinese-English parallel corpus

汉语动态助词“了”的英语翻译——基于英汉、汉英平行语料的对比研究

Through the contrastive study on functional load of ＂-le＂ in original Chinese texts and translated Chinese texts, the results show that past tense, perfective aspect and seldom other forms are the corresponding forms of ＂-le＂ and its translation has a close relationship with verb classes, pragmatic functions, contextual meaning and so on.

本文在英漠、漠英平行语料的基础上，通过封汉语原本与英语的汉语译本中动态助词“了”的功能负荷量的对比研究，发现动态助词“了”英译时主要对应于英语的过去时、完成体及少量其他形式。究其原因，这主要与动词分类以及助词“了”的语用功能、语境意义等因素有关。