Calque

Ringbom also suggests that misspellings, borrowings and coinage are transfer of form while calque is transfer of meaning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture, in the sense that the previous editors presumed to be able to second-guess how Dostoyevsky's text would have looked were he to have written it at the time of republication, somewhat like those "plain text" editions of Shakespeare. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Somehow I have a feeling that конъюнктурный in this case is a calque from the English conjecture ❋ Unknown (2005)

2. You don't seem to have paid attention to the word "calque" in my comment. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This is borne out by empirical research (e.g Olsen 1999) CLI researchers tend to classify Lexical transfer as misspellings, borrowings, coinage and calque. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The word "bushmeat" is a word-for-word translation or calque of the French phrase viande de brousse. ❋ Erin McKean (2011)

Dr. G, in the NT as in the Septuagint, it's regarded to be a calque from Hebrew and Aramaic. ❋ DC (2010)

I have heard that “are you coming with?” is a calque of German “kommst du mit?” ❋ Unknown (2008)

That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Home » For Translators » What is a calque? ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are four types of calque, which we will talk about in the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike a loan, which is a phonetic and morphologic adaptation, calque is a construction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is also “structure calque” in which the syntactic construction is new to the target language science fiction, “ciencia-ficción”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Considered as an import of foreign elements that turn out to be discordant in the target language, a calque can be produced at any level. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There he lists and discusses six types of “strange” or “foreign” terms used in his translation of the Guide: neologisms, rare words or phrases, derived terms, homonyms, terms created through calque, and new compound expressions. ❋ Robinson, James T. (2006)

"Real estate" in Polish is nieruchomości lit: immovables probably a calque from German. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Where an item or technology diffuses gradually from one group to the next, it seems quite plausible that the ones to whom it is new will calque the term used by those from whom they have acquired it, since it is very likely that they will understand their neighbors' language. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The head is ornamented with a large horny calque or helmet, and the bare skin of the neck is conspicuous with bright blue and red colours. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Navajo kids who start learning Dine in kindergarden and speak an English calque is something I heard about back in the early 90s. ❋ Unknown (2004)