관형절 내포문 한-중 번역을 위한 새 길 탐색

A Study on New Approaches to Korean-Chinese Translation of Embedded Relative Clauses

In Korean, relative clauses providing new referential information about an agent often get dismantled in Chinese translation due to the natural word order of ‘topic → focus’ and ‘given information → new information’ in Chinese. In Korean, there are embedded relative clauses where the noun being modified does not carry significant meaning and serves primarily to nominalize the clause. In these instances, the Chinese translation often retains only the new information conveyed by the relative clause, while the noun itself is omitted. Chinese prefers specifying the topic or subject first and then making a statement, whereas Korean typically places the noun elements at the end of the statement within a relative clause structure.