Phraseological non-equivalence: Possibilities of lexicographic fixation in bilingual dictionaries

This study seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the problem of interlanguage equivalence, which remains challenging in the modern theory of translation. One promising solution is to use bilingual diachronic dictionaries based on parallel translation corpora, containing both authentic texts in the source language (L1) and professional translations of the same texts into the target language (L2). Drawing on the materials of two Russian-German dictionaries, this study addresses the nature of interlanguage phraseological non-equivalence in diachrony and explains the rationale behind creating a diachronic corpus of parallel translations. It presents a corpus-based diachronic translation phraseological dictionary, which is based on a series of investigations into the technique and quality of 30 parallel translations of five major novels by F.M. Dostoevskij into German performed between 1882 and 2003. The concept, structure and principles of building such a novel type of dictionary are described and illustrated by using fragments of the Russian-German diachronic translation dictionaries of lexical and syntactic phraseological units. The provisions underlying the development of a diachronic corpus of parallel translations are formulated. The importance of relying on translation techniques in the development of a diachronic corpus of parallel translations is substantiated.