Durative and Punctuality Aspects in French and Their Translation Into Indonesian

Durative and Punctuality Aspects in French and their Translation into Indonesian. This study focuses on the durative and punctuality aspects in French and how these aspects are translated into Indonesian. This study is of interest due to the different of language systems between French and Indonesian in tagging aspect. Aspect in French could be performed in several ways, while in Indonesian, aspect is expressed morphologically using lexis. The objectives of this study are to investigate the form of durative and punctuality aspects reflected in the verbal tenses and adverbial of time in French as SL and their translation into Indonesian as TL , and to discover the factors that influence the global choice of translation technique used in translating these aspects. The primary data of this study is a French novel, entitled Les Chants de L\u27ile à Dormir Debout: Le Livre de Centhini, and its Indonesian translation. This qualitative research is supported by a library method, with a noting technique as a technique of data gathering. The data is analyzed by using a comparative method. This study shows that the meaning of durative and punctuality aspects in French in verbal tenses cannot be always seen in the translation texts; adverbial of time as the marker of punctuality aspect is translated equivalently by using lexical words or adverbials to transfer the meaning. Moreover, the translation techniques used were influenced by the different language systems of French and Indonesian and by the cultural situation of the story of the novel