The paper deals with questions of transitivity in terms of Natural Syntax, a deductive theory in development. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or "axioms"). The predictions of the theory are calculated in what are known as deductions, the chief components of each being a pair of naturalness scales and the rules governing the alignment of corresponding naturalness values. Natural Syntax is exemplified here with language data bearing on transitivity phenomena in accusative languages.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41892194
The paper addresses some typical instances of a translator's failure to interpret a noun phrase in Slovene as definite, which leads to an inappropriate choice of determiner in English. Such misinterpretations are due to: a) the lack of non-selectively used overt anaphoric signals in Slovene; and b) a tendency to misinterpret a definite noun phrase in subject position as a predicative element with an indefinite status. Special attention is drawn to the difference in use between the selective demonstrative pronoun and the non-selective definite article
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The paper studies some parameters in terminology teaching within the framework of the training of French language translators and interpreters at university level, with special attention being given to legal terminology. Often, the latter is highly culture-specific, for which reason trying to master it may be a source of more than language-related difficulties. The article offers some suggestions for the analysis of legal terminology and its more effective acquisition by translation and interpreting trainees.
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In diachronic linguistics the Naturalness Theory purports to unravel the seemingly random distribution of linguistic variants at the early stage of their assertion, when no other tangible functional, contextual or pragmatic motivation exists. The paper presents the results of three empirical studies, which confirm that the complexity of grammatical environment is instrumental in the choice between elective morphosyntactic constructions. Special attention is paid to the traditional grammatical parameters in defining the grammatical environment relevant to the study of single language phenomena.
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The paper deals with language contact between Slovene and the Romance language varieties used in the Italian-Slovene border area. Language-contact phenomena are studied on the basis of a corpus of typologically different written texts, spanning from literary works to newspaper articles and texts produced by students. The author discusses the principal types of Romance linguistic elements found in Slovene texts, emphasizing the difference between their spontaneus use (mainly in newspapers and in students' texts) on the one hand and their intentional use on the other (mainly in literary texts).
COBISS.SI-ID: 41811810