El dg 30 de 09 de 2012 a les 08:32 +0200, en/na Mikel Forcada va escriure: > I think the norm is that some prepositions don't go well with > infiinitives, but most grammars assert that this is when the preposition > is part of a verb that requires that preposition: > > ['pensar en'] "pensant en això" → "pensant a fer"; > ['consistir en'] "consisteix en l'acció" → "consisteix a actuar". > > I have found no norm whatsoever for changes outside the "regime" of a > verb. In my spoken Catalan, I never talk like that, but I think it is > better to translate it as "a modificar" that "en modificar" using the > same general rule, as this is a marginal case in grammar. No one has > complained yet, and it is probably not such a frequent situation.
Ok, I think this is outside the realm of my knowledge :) It doesn't really cause problems for postedition. Incidentally, I checked for "consisteix en modificar" and "consisteix a modificar" site:.cat and they get a similar number of results. So maybe it's even in free variation. In fact, check this out: "El projecte consisteix en modificar la secció d'aquests carrers del barri d'Artigues per ampliar les voreres d'ambdós costats tot deixant un carril a la ..." http://www.barcelones.cat/santadrianord/actuacio_detall.asp?id=4 "El projecte consisteix a modificar la secció d'aquests dos carrers del barri d'Artigues per ampliar les voreres d'ambdós costats tot deixant un carril a ..." http://www.barcelones.cat/santadrianord/actuacio_detall.asp?id=3 :D Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
