RT Journal Article
T1 Morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour of legal phraseological units. A case study in Spanish verb-noun constructions about money laundering
A1 Hourani-Martín, Dunia
A1 Tabares Plasencia, Encarnación
K1 Lengua española jurídica
K1 Derecho - Traducción
K1 Fraseología
AB 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.
PB John Benjamins
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39246
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39246
LA eng
NO Hourani-Martín, Dunia & Tabares-Plasencia, Encarnación (2020). Morphosyntactic and semantic behaviour of legal phraseological units. A case study in Spanish nominal verb constructions about money laundering. Terminology, 26(1), 109 - 132. https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00044.hou
NO https://benjamins.com/content/authors/rightspolicy
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026