Leksinės ertmės : anglų kalbos "A Pet" ir jo lietuviškų atitikmenų analizė

Abstract

A lexical gap is understood as inadequacy between a concept and its lexical expression in at least two languages. It is a phenomenon when a concept in one language is lexicalised, i.e., is encoded by one word, while in the other language it does not have a stable and known name and is expressed in different ways. A lexical gap usually represents a concept that is foreign or not important to the speakers of a language. In translation the unlexicalized concept is translated with the help of various compensatory techniques.[...]