A morphosyntactic analysis of Latin multi-word anatomical terms and their translation equivalents in English and Armenian
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Morphosyntactic analysis, anatomical terms, translation equivalents, head, dependentsAbstract
This article focuses on the morphosyntactic changes that are made, necessarily and/or optionally, when translating Latin binomial and polynomial anatomical terms into English and Armenian. The principal morphosyntactic distinctions relate to several different ways of rendering Latin coordinated and uncoordinated attributes in English and Armenian. Additionally, differences are observed in the placement of dependents with respect to the head and to each other. It is argued that the morphosyntactic differences in question are partly due to the typological characteristics of the languages involved and partly to certain language-specific preferences and usage patterns typical of Modern English and Modern Armenian.
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