CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF TERM FORMATION BASED ON SIMPLE NOUNS IN MATHEMATICS (CORPUS BASED STUDY)
Keywords:
contrastive study, English language, Slovak language, term formation, termAbstract
The article deals with a contrastive analysis of mathematical terms, i.e. simple nouns. The research
focuses on the term formation within the word class of nouns. Origins of the English and Slovak terms are analysed,
described and compared. It is expected that Latin and Greek languages are the original languages of terms in both
languages. Furthemore, Slovak terminological equivalents are compared with the English ones in term preference
the Latin/Greek term or the native term if exists. According to term formation processes, the following suffixes
representing bound morphemes are analysed: -ics, -ity, -ment as well as the Slovak suffixes of the Slovak terms
representing possible equivalents. Terms are analysed according to principles for term formation. The following
principles should be followed in the formation of terms and appellations, as far as possible and as appropriate to the
language: transparency; ⎯ consistency; ⎯ appropriateness, linguistic economy; ⎯ derivability and compoundability; ⎯
linguistic correctness; ⎯ preference for native language. Data are collected from the Slovak National Corpus 10.0,
i.e. English –Slovak Parallel Corpus 4.0 en, Slovak –English Parallel Corpus 4.0 sk and the British National Corpus.
The research is based on both languages and comparison of terms in both parts of the corpus. Specific trends and
tendencies in the strategies of term formation are analysed. Subject of analysis is the terminological level of
mathematics in the Slovak and the English language. The methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis are
applied, contrastive and comparative approaches are used. Terminology records of terms are examined from lexico -
grammatical point of view and on the basis of term-formation tendencies in each analysed language. i.e. Slovak
language and English language. Records include entry, identification number, reference to the term, synonyms,
subject field, formula, abbreviation, context, reference to the context, definition, reference to the definition.
Furthermore, the statistical value ARF (average rate frequency) is taken into consideration in order to identify the
frequency of the suffixes. It is a statistical tool representing the average occurrence of words in the corpus.
Outcomes on contrastive analysis of terms/simple nouns are discussed and illustrated in the table.
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