SEGMENTED CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE BELARUSIAN TRANSLATION OF “THE LITTLE PRINCE”

Abstract

The syntax of the first Belarusian-language translation of the allegorical story-fairy tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince” (1943) is considered. It is noted that the syntactic specificity of the translation in the authorship of Edzi Agnyatsvet is primarily due to the “colloquial” nature of the work itself and the influence on the idiostyle of the translator of the Belarusian oral speech. An important role was also played by the translator’s own intentions, which manifested itself in functionally conditioned constructions: segmentation of sentences, statements with particles, structural incompleteness, etc. Such constructions in the Belarusian-language translation allowed the author to actualize the readers’ attention to the conceptually important points of the content of the tale.