The process of Zero correlation of Bilingual Pseudo internationalisms in English and Albanian Language

Abstract

One of the most common problems of the translators nowadays is the problem of mismatching and that is words that look as if they exist in the other language but they do not. In this paper we have covered the morphological aspect of bilingual pseudo internationalisms (the correspondence between the roots and word’s elements) in English and Albanian and in this way we have come across with the problem of zero correlation. Our analysis is a contrastive analysis of one language, (in this case Albanian language), through the prism of another language (English language). The focus of our comparison is the question of diversity (words that look as if they exist in the other language but they do not).

By using the subjective technique we have compared the surface structures of the bilingual pseudo internationalisms that in fact are “false friends” in Albanian and English language (suffixes and prefixes of international origin) by using monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, dictionaries of foreign words, and reverse dictionaries of the Albanian language. While, with the help of the objective technique we have worked with the corpus, one-way, bidirectional translation, and group test of Gjorgevic (1982). Our corpus is consisted of translated Ismail Kadare’s books from Albanian into English language exclusively from native English speaking users.

With the method of contrastive analysis at morphological level (Ivir, 1968:149-159) we have identified words that are part of the Albanian language, but not of the English language, even though they look like they could be part of it.

Keywords: bilingual pseudo internationalisms, international suffixes, international prefix, zero correspondence.