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and 'recorrendo 1 , which have been translated at morpheme-bound
rank, reflect students'
limited knowledge of - i ng form as the
only exponent of v in a verbal group. They do not know that
"non-finite verbs are found in several structural places" 11
outside verbal group. They do not recognize an -ing form either
operating at (m), or at h, as the translation of NORMAL BLADDER
EMPTYING in T5N, into 'bexiga normal despejando/ esgotando'
shows. 12 Besides giving rise to strange and sometimes deviant
forms in Portuguese in face of the translation of the whole
sentence where these ngps are inserted, errors like those
in
numbers 5 and 6 are evidence of the existing tendency to
translate at work-rank. Morpheme-bound translations may be said
to form one extreme of a scale if we were to produce a scaling
classification of errors which concern this research. It is
important to say that numbers 5 and 6 were counted up as wbt
errors hecause 'ascendendo' and 'recorrendo' were not linked
to any other group either preceding or following them; when
one of the structural elements in a ngp which expounds an -ing
form, or -ed form, is translated as one of the structural
elements of another group which precedes or follows that ngp,
the resultant translation is not included in the wbt error
type, as we shall explain the types of errors made in the
translation of EXPOSED METALS, in the description of errors
ignored in this
research.
In the translation of the English ngps below, only
an inversion in the sequence of their structural elements to
get to their equivalents in Portuguese was necessary; that is.
to say, a shift from (m) h (modifier plus headword) to h (_q)_