Svět Literatury (Dec 2015)

Le syntagme prépositif latin — texte figé dans un texte libre français et polonais? // The Latin prepositional syntagm — a fixed text in free French and Polish texts?

  • Ilona Krasoń

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. Special Issue - "Le monde de la littérature"
pp. 255 – 264

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This presentation addresses the presence of Latinisms in French and Polish phrases of legal language. We distinguish Latin fixed sequences as phrases (paremias) and non-verbal syntagms (locutions). I will try to discuss the mechanism of incorporating Latin prepositional locutions (e.g. extra legem) in legal discourse, their role in phrases and moreover whether we can talk about intertextuality. I have defined the linguistic status of the prepositional syntagm as a “short fixed phrase”, their place (in word compounds and sentences) and their functions in the phrase (epithet function — raisonnement/wnioskowanie a contrario). I will try to answer the following questions : is there a semantic, syntactic or contextual dependence in the receiving language, are these linguistic phenomena the same for French and Polish legal languages?

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