English Compound Terms in Air Traffic and Waterways Transport and Traffic Engineering and their Translation into Serbian

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the morphological structure and semantics of 89 English compound terms and their Serbian equivalents, as employed in air traffic and waterways transport and traffic engineering. In order to facilitate the process of translating these English metaphorical compound lexemes into Serbian, 10 translation patterns and strategies are designed. The results of the analysis also show that English compound terms and translation equivalents in Serbian do not pattern in most cases. To obtain the findings, we develop a semantico-morpho-translation method.

Keywords

• air and water transport and traffic engineering
• english terminological compound lexemes
• semantico-morpho-translation approach
• serbian equivalents
• translation patterns