TANGENT AND DIVERGENT POINTS BETWEEN LANGUAGES
TANGENT AND DIVERGENT POINTS BETWEEN LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: The horizontal analysis of tangent and divergent points between two or more related or unrelated languages has a wide range of applicability in foreign language teaching. Starting from the discrepancies between the native language and the target language, this paper brings forth a corpus of information concerning the use of the Infinitive {VDT or V2} as a compulsory or an optional modal variant, required by the main verb (VR – sentence operator) in texts belonging to three specialized languages, English, French and Romanian. The authors have chosen this topic of study limiting their analysis to the group of declarative and factitive verbs requiring either an Infinitive, a Subjunctive, an Indicative or a Conditional Mood structure to highlight the similarities and differences among the three languages and their specific application to technical and scientific texts.

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