Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

propositions relatives imbriquées

English translation:

Nested/Embedded relative clauses

Added to glossary by Delaina
Jan 6, 2021 10:26
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French term

propositions relatives imbriquées

French to English Art/Literary Linguistics grammar
Une fois accepté pour parution, l'article est enfin relu par l'un·e des deux expert·e·s internes pour une relecture spécifique que nous appelons « pré-traduction ». Lors de cette dernière, on veille non seulement à ce que la langue soit exempte de tournures syntaxiques alambiquées (propositions relatives imbriquées, doubles négations, etc.) qui sont autant de potentielles sources d’erreurs dans la phase de traduction, mais aussi à ce que le texte soit directement intelligible pour un lectorat non français et/ou non francophone.

Do any grammarians know a translation for 'propositions relatives imbriquées', please? It may be that it will be more appropriate to change the example in EN, but it'd be great to know if there's a set translation before deciding on this.

Discussion

cchat Jan 7, 2021:
Negative connotations The original French clearly supposes that these structures should be avoided, to facilitate translation. I'm not sure that the same applies to English, where stacked, coordinated, and nested relative clauses may or may not be problematic, i.e. difficult to parse.
Delaina (asker) Jan 6, 2021:
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It's referring to this grammatical phenomenon.

Proposed translations

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Nested/Embedded relative clauses

For the purpose of the translator, the terms ''nesting'' and ''embedding'' can be used interchangeably.
Example sentence:

Nesting is when a clause has another clause embedded inside it.

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neutral philgoddard : You can't just repost other people's answers.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all answerers, especially @liz askew & @Thomas Miles. It appears overall that the terms nested/embedded are interchangeable in this context."
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Connective (or coordinate) relative clauses

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neutral SafeTex : I don't think this is quite the same thing but it's too long to explain why in a comment
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embedded relative clauses

Une possibilité.
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agree SafeTex : I did lingustics at Uni and this is the term we used, which get around 4 times as many ghits so I'd go with this
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Thanks SafeTex.
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nested relative clauses

http://www.taalportaal.org/taalportaal/topic/link/syntax__Du...

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Note added at 54 mins (2021-01-06 11:21:04 GMT)
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This section discusses relative constructions containing more than one relative clause. The relative clauses in such constructions can be stacked, nested or coordinated. Some examples are given in (362). In example (362a), the two subclauses are stacked: as indicated by the indices, the first relative clause modifies the antecedent student'student', while the second relative clause modifies the sequence student die hiernaast woont'student who lives next door'. Such constructions differ from cases of nesting, illustrated in (362b), where the second relative clause modifies a noun phrase contained in the first relative clause. Both types of construction differ from cases of simple coordination of relative clauses, as in (362c), where each relative clause modifies the same antecedent. As we will see in the following subsections, stacking of relative clauses is fully acceptable only with restrictive relative clauses (as in example (362a)); coordination and nesting are possible both with restrictive and with non-restrictive relative clauses.
Example 362
a. De [[studenti [dieihiernaast woont]]j [diej Engels studeert]] komt uit Japan.
the student who next.door lives who English studies is from Japan
'The student who lives next door who studies English, is from Japan.'
b. De studenti [dieinet een boekj kocht [datj over WO II gaat]] is mijn vriend.
the student who just a book bought which about WW II goes is my friend
'The student who has just bought a book which is about WW II is my friend.'
c. De mani [dieihier net was] en [dieiRussisch sprak] is een bekend schrijver.
the man who here just was and who Russian spoke is a well-known writer
'The man who was just here and who spoke Russian is a well-known writer.'Subsection I will discuss stacking and coordination of relative clauses of the same type. Subsection II will continue by discussing nesting of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. Subsection III, finally, will consider constructions containing relative clauses of different types, that is, combinations of a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative clause.
I. Stacking and coordination of relative clauses
A. Restrictive relative clauses
B. Non-restrictive relative clauses
II. Nesting of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses
III. Mixed constructions with restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses


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Note added at 5 hrs (2021-01-06 15:42:10 GMT)
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Task B - indirectly nested clauses (i) - relative clauses (RCls)www.lancaster.ac.uk › stylistics › topic7 › 9nesting2
We have now seen that Noun clauses, Adverbial clauses and Prepositional clauses can all be directly nested (embedded) inside main clauses (i.e. comprise a whole SPOCA element within the main clause). We also need to take account of the fact that clauses can be indirectly nested inside main clauses.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : Or overlapping.
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Trouble is I could not find your suggestion
agree Thomas Miles : This sounds good, but I would still like to propose my own suggestion.
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Fair enough. I tend to go for the researched answer, especially as this is not my area
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