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Stein, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1979
Minor grammatical errors made by German students in translating from English to German led to an investigation of the means available in the two languages for effecting text-coherence. The examples cited indicate that English has fewer possibilities than German for showing sentence perspective through surface-syntactical markers. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), German
Taber, Charles R. – Langages, 1972
Special issue on translation. (VM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Language Styles
Loffler-Laurian, Anne-Marie – IRAL, 1987
Describes a study that attempts to systematize the criteria required for accurate translations of technical documents. The results of a Linguistic Appreciation Questionnaire-Test, administered to 19 professional translators, were used to categorize the most common translation variables: style, structure, rhythm, and meaning of text in the hope of…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, French, Interpretive Skills
Download full textWilks, Yorick – 1972
This paper examines and criticizes Lakoff's notions of a natural logic and of a generative semantics described in terms of logic. The author argues that the relationship of these notions to logic as normally understood is unclear but suggests a number of possible interpretations of the thesis of generative semantics. Further, on these…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory
Gammon, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1971
This volume contains the papers presented at a workshop which brought together authorities from several different disciplines, each working in the area of natural language analysis, to participate in intensive, technical discussions of the issues involved in developing adequate grammars and semantics of natural languages. The disciplines…
Descriptors: Computers, Context Free Grammar, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
PDF pending restorationLehmann, Winfred P.; Stachowitz, Rolf A. – 1975
This report describes work on a pilot system for a fully automatic, high-quality translation of German scientific and technical text into English and gives the results of an experiment designed to show the system's capability to produce quality mechanical translation. The areas considered were: (1) grammar formalism, mainly involving the addition…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Contrastive Linguistics
Zierer, Ernesto – 1971
This paper explains the main concepts of communicative grammar and provides a detailed view of how communicative grammar analyses language at various levels. Language is discussed in terms of communication; the central elements in the analysis are those that carry information. Communicative grammar seeks to describe the process of the linguistic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computational Linguistics
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
