Publications

Authors:

Hourani Martín, Dunia; Tabares Plasencia, Encarnación

Title:

Morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour of legal phraseological units. A case study in Spanish nominal verb constructions about money laundering

Year:

2020

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Referee:

No

Name of journal:

TERMINOLOGY

ISSN of journal:

0929-9971

Page numbers:

109-132

Keyword:

Legal phraseological units (LPUs); Verb-noun constructions (VNCs); Phraseology of criminal law; Phraseological transformation; Morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour

Short description of contents:

This paper analyses the morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour of a sample of verb-noun constructions (VNCs, Tabares Plasencia 2012) from the corpus CRIMO (Hourani Martín and Tabares Plasencia 2016), a specialised comparable corpus of different varieties of Spanish that comprises the legislation on criminal law and criminal procedure from the Hispanic states. Our analysis revealed that topolectal variation is common despite attempts by international organisations to harmonise the terminology used in this legal subdomain. It will also be demonstrated that transformations of VNCs are pragmatically motivated and conditioned by the context. Examining these transformations reveals conventions of specialised discourse and textual genre which is why their representation in terminographical tools should be considered as they are an important means for a translator to achieve the adequacy and naturalness required for legal translation.

Product ID:

118523

Handle IRIS:

11562/1032664

Last Modified:

October 19, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Hourani Martín, Dunia; Tabares Plasencia, Encarnación, Morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour of legal phraseological units. A case study in Spanish nominal verb constructions about money laundering «TERMINOLOGY» , 2020 , pp. 109-132

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