SUBSTANTIVIZED VERBALS: ISSUES ON TRANSLATION OF NON-FINITE FORMS OF THE ENGLISH VERB INTO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
The article looks upon substantiation as a phenomenon peculiar to translation of English non-finite verbal forms into Russian. The ratio between the actions expressed by finite and non-finite forms in the bookish style of the English language is revealed. The semantic analysis leads to the conclusion that speech compression represents the reason why verbals are used so often. The empirical analysis of non-finite forms in subject-specific economic texts is conducted. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the source and target contexts proves that grammar transformation, i.e. the substitution of a verbal form with a noun form is commonly used. The author states that such tactics are due to historical reasons of the language development, the volume of utterance depends on the part of speech used and the use of nouns instead of verbs is a discourse indicator.