PADRÕES DE SINTAGMAS NOMINAIS EM INGLÊS E PORTUGUÊS: UMA ANÁLISE CONTRASTIVA EM CORPUS PARALELO

Abstract

Noun Phrases are a very complex issue and requires from Translators a good knowledge of its structure and modification sequence in order to Noun Phrases can be adequately traduced. The aim of this research is to examine occurrences of modifiers-head inversions in Noun Phrases, that is, whether the head was correctly identified in Noun Phrases of a corpus with 17 abstracts from English to Portuguese and the head position was equal in the latter when compared to the former. Therefore, this research identified the whole Noun Phrases of the corpus; Noun Phrases were categorized according to Milanez (2009); Noun Phrases were counted according to Milanez (2009); It was necessary to identify and analyze Noun Phrases with “inadequacy” (head inversion) and “adequacy” (non-head inversion). This is a basic and descriptive research with qualitative approach, furthermore, it uses hypothetico-deductive methods and bibliographical survey. We found occurrences of modifiers-head inversions in some Noun Phrases, mostly, on E-type (adj AND adj + noun.) of English. Finally, this research sheds light on structure and modification sequencing complexity of Noun Phrase, nonetheless, further research is necessary.