Some translation problems of relational adjectives from French to Wolof: a corpus based study of business terminology (De quelques problèmes de traduction des adjectifs relationnels du français vers le wolof : étude sur corpus de terminologie commerciale) [in French]

The French language, particularly, French for Specific Purpose, uses a lot relational adjectives. These one indicate a certain degree of specialization. In a corpus analysis of 90420 occurrences gathered from dissertations and news paper related to trade field, we tried to constitute a collocation corpus of nouns and adjectives, particularly relational adjectives. A great interest in the process of ‘traduction par simplification’ which is a translation method used for so called African languages. In this perspective, we notice different possibilities to translate the French pattern Noun_Adjective into Wolof, a Senegalese language. These possibilities may constitute problems in the framework of machine translation. Mots-clés : wolof, terminologie commerciale, adjectifs relationnels, corpus, traduction.