After meticulous investigation of more than 800 function verb phrases (FVPs) extracted from the modern vocabularyof two Germanic languages (German and English) and a Romance one (Romanian), in the contribution at hand the
author scrutinizes the idiosyncrasies which the fascinating – if, alas, excruciatingly logic-chopping – procedure of finding semantico-lexematic matches in the three above-mentioned languages has helped to bring out.
Vying for the reader’s undivided attention are thus minor topics such as: referential and formal ‘double-dealers’, cognati falsi, inherently or explicitly superlative/negative combinations, interference types of syntactic and semantic
modification, voice blends, flexibility types. In the final section statistical evidence – guided by a double-barrelled approach, i.e. both morphology- and language-oriented – is had ample and authoritative recourse to. Interesting findings are being highlighted in the process, again with a twofold purpose in mind: to further corroborate previous, less empirical, evidence and, more important even, to put across in a most vigorous manner the incongruities deriving from infelicitous usage of loan translations with Romanian speakers.

Keywords:

verb phrases, language, match, cognati falsi, combination, type

Pages:

29-35

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Type:

Research Paper

Field:

Comparative Linguistics

Topic:

Speech Aspects

UDC:

81`362

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.495077

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