Multi-Word Compound Consistency Issues in Spelling. The Case of Legal Language of Bank Contracts
Katerina T. Frantzi, Konstantina Vadasi · Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences · 2017
This study deals with the identification of inconsistencies in the way of spelling specific Greek word formulations, focusing on the spelling of specific multi-word compounds either as one or as two words.Spelling inconsistencies are very useful to find since they can cause problems in translation and in communication in general.The existence of such inconsistencies is explored in a number of Greek dictionaries and grammars.These inconsistencies are particularly important to find in Languages for Specific Purposes and this work focuses on the special language used in bank contracts.The special language of bank contracts has been chosen due to its importance in the current world economic situation.A corpus-based methodology is applied, ensuring accuracy and completeness, for processing BanCo, the dynamic Greek corpus of bank contract documents, for the exploitation of spelling situations in real language material.The processing reveals a variety of multi-word compounds that often appear with different spellings.