TRANSLATION OF SUBSTANTIVE ATTRIBUTIVE WORD COMBINATIONS IN TECHNICAL TEXTS ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
The present article deals with English substantive attributive word combinations typical for technical texts on mechanical engineering. Substantive attributive word combinations found in texts of the given sub-language represent terminological phrases. Classifications of semantic relations between components within a phrase based on the identifying predicates are given. The most typical types of semantic relations between the components of substantive attributive word combinations are described. Multicomponent substantive attributive word combinations allow to pass a maximum amount of information by minimal use of grammatical means. The meaning of the whole phrase is determined not only by the semantics of its components but by their position relative to one another as well, the last noun in the system being always identified as a defined one. The article describes basic ways of translation of substantive attributive word combinations and the influence of their components location on the semantics of the whole phrase.