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3. TISSUE INJURY translated as 'teci do ofendido' (T6N)
h
tq)
teci do prejudi cado
h
(q)
tecido mal
h
(q)
I
4. PRONOUNCED RENAL DAMAGE translated as 'locutor renal danificado' (T6N)
Cm) (m) h h (q) (q)
5. ASCENDING INFECTION translated as 'ascendendo infecção' (T5N) 5
(m) h V (q)
6. RECURRING ATTACKS translated as 'recorrendo ataques' (T ß N)
(m) h V h
i
In the examples above, the necessity for class-shift was
not
perceived by our students. In these few examples we have seen
that they have not been able to identify the structural elements
(m) and h of an English ngp which require a shift from (m)
h
to h (q) to expound an equivalent Portuguese
ngp. At (m) we have
seen some types of adjectives which operate at a finer scale as
exponents of e and x \ . 1 0 In numbers 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 we have
NORMAL, ELECTRIC, PRONOUNCED, ASCENDING and RECURRING
as
exponents of e, and TISSUE as the exponent of n. In their
Portuguese equivalents they are all operating at h, except for
numbers 5 and 6 where ASCENDING and RECURRING have
been
translated as an exponent of a verbal group. Thus, 'ascendendo'