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THIS LATTER PART
Cm) (m) h
I I I
'esta segunda
Cm) Cm) h
parte'
However, its rendered translation into 'esta mais tardia parte'
has interfered with the meaning conveyed by the English exponents
of that ngp, due to formal similarity between two lexical items
in English: LATTER and
LATER.
5.3.2 . i rg type of error
This type of error refers to the influence of English
structural
elements of a ngp on its equivalent ngp in Portuguese,
together with an inadequate insertion of a rankshifted group.
For instance, in the translation of INFECTIOUS
VIRUS, in T2N,
into
I 1
INFECTIOUS VIRUS infecção de virus 14
Cm) h h h]
we have 'infecção' operating at h and 'virus' operating at [q]
N
I
h
as the object of a preposition, 'de' ;^5
'de virus' is a
rankshifted prepositional group operating at [q] . In 'de virus'
we have a preposition and its object - virus - which
is expounded
by a noun (N) operating at h in the ngp 'virus'.
It is important to emphasize that, like in wbt errors,
the influence of the English exponents was felt in the
rendered
translation; moreover, that insertion of a rankshifted group may