Between Simplification and Complexification. German, Hungarian, Romanian Noun and Adjective Morphologies in Contact

World Englishes between Simplification and Complexification

Let us turn to the latter, more far-reaching issue first, namely to the notions of complexity/ complexification vs. simplicity/simplification. These are currently widely debated notions in the study of language typology and language variation, as can be seen from recent book publications such as Kusters (2003), Dahl (2004), Miestamo/Sinnemäki/Karlsson (to appear 2008) or Gil/Trudgill/ Sampson (...

problems and strategies of translating persian lexical collocations into english: the case of noun-verb and noun-adjective collocations

در محیط های دانشگاهی ایران ، آموزش ترجمه واژگان هم آیند که به منزله امری لاینفک برای دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان می باشد، تا حدود زیادی نادیده گرفته شده است . این واقعیت باعث شده است تا دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان در ترجمه ی واژگان هم آیند اشتباهات بسیاری مرتکب شوند. این پژوهش توجه ویژه ای به ترجمه واژگان هم آیند داشته است. برای مشخص نمودن مشکلات و استراتژی های مورد استفاده ی دانش جویان در ترجم...

Adjective - Noun 1 Global and local influences on adjective - noun combination : A limit on incrementality

Classification in combined phrases: noun-noun conjunctions and intersective, subsective and privative adjective-noun combinations

How is the meaning of an adjectivenoun phrase related to the meanings of its adjective and noun constituents? Different types of adjective produce different relations between a combination and in its constituent adjectives and nouns. Current theories give separate mechanisms for each adjective type. This paper shows how a computational model originally developed to explain classification in nou...

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...