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154 Vilma Pápai
part of speech and are representative of synthetic language structuring, whereas
postpositives represent analytic language structuring” (Mátai 2002:84).
(5) The term Regional Economic Association (REA) defines
collectively the various forms of economic integration among independent
states.
A regionális gazdasági társulás (REA) a független államok
közötti gazdasági integráció különböző formáinak együttes definíciója.
Back translation: Regional Economic Association (REA) is a collective definition
of various forms of ‘independent states among +[adjectival suffix]
economic integration’.
4.1.4 Shifts on the syntactic level: conjunctions
(6) The dynamics of integration arise from increasing openness
and political and economic interdependence among the participating
countries.
Az integráció dinamikája a részt vevő országok növekvő
nyitottságának, illetve egymástól való kölcsönös gazdasági és politikai
függésének eredménye.
Back translation: The dynamics of integration is a result of increasing
openness as well as political and economic interdependence among the
praticipating countries.
Example (6) involves a shift from one co-ordinator to another. Conjunct illetve
(‘as well as’) changes the distribution of co-ordinated elements: instead of
openness and political and economic interdependence the translator “works out”
the relations: openness ‘as well as’ political and economic interdependence.There
are probably two reasons for shifting the co-ordinator. First, the conjunct and
lends itself to several interpretations:
Semantically, linkage may be placed on a scale of cohesiveness . . . And is the
vaguest of connectives – it might be called a ‘general purpose link’, in that it
merely says that two ideas have a positive connection, and leaves the reader to
work out what it is. (Leech & Short 1981 in Øverås 1998:576)
Second, the x + (y + z) structure of the Hungarian phrase is probably easier to
comprehend than the x +y +z structure in English.