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Roos, Eckhard – 1978
Contrastive analysis can help solve certain problems in translation, for example, that of idioms. A contrastive analysis of source language (SL) and target language (TL) might have as its theoretical framework a contrastive lexical analysis based on generative semantics. In this approach both SL and TL idioms are broken down into their semantic…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar