Foregrounding of the Plural Form

The plural form is foregrounded when it is used with uncountable nouns or with “noun phrases”. The plural moves an uncountable noun into a new category, thus stressing it.

He was bursting with new ideas and new enthusiasm s. (I.Shaw).

В нем бурлили новые идеи и новые увлечения.

We spent a long day together, with a great many “Do you remembers?”

(Desmond Young).

Мы провели весь день вместе, без конца повторяя: «А ты помнишь?»

As conversion is used in Russian on a limited scale it can hardly ever preserved.

Foregrounding of Word-building

New words are coined by affixation, word-compounding and conversion. All these means of word-building are frequently foregrounded. Their expressiveness is due to their individual character and is often a feature of the writer’s style.

As word-building possesses a national character the rendering of such coinages constitutes a complicated problem of translation.