13:24 Jan 10, 2015 |
Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Linguistics / theoretical linguistics | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 10:47 | ||||||
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4 +1 | prevented |
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4 | impairs, hinders, makes it impossible, forbids... |
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4 | took precedence over |
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3 | precluded |
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impairs, hinders, makes it impossible, forbids... Explanation: There are several options here. It simply means it's grammatically incorrect, IMO. |
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precluded Explanation: Mais uma sugestão. |
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prevented Explanation: Just another suggestion. But the translated sentence will sound more natural if you rephrase it. Possible solutions: The stress on the penultimate syllable prevented the ...word from being a proparoxytone. ...word from receiving an accent on the proparoxytone syllable. ...accent on the antepenultimate syllable. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2015-01-10 16:05:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Note about the asker's comment: It's not about the past tense. You might keep it in the present tense if you will. What I meant was to start the sentence like this, "The stress on the penultimate syllable..." instead of "The penultimate heavy syllable..." |
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took precedence over Explanation: More context would help a lot. Is this a statement about synchronic or diachronic linguistics? The imperfect tense suggests that this might be a description of the evolution of stress from Greek to Latin, in which case my answer would make sense. |
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Reference: prevents Reference information: ... as is well known, makes decisive use of quantity sensitivity, a penultimate heavy syllable preventing antepenultimate stress. http://tinyurl.com/omxdb5r |
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