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Abstract

Abstract

This paper analyzes the use of the - and - forms in English and Spanish in sales contracts. More specifically, it aims to answer three questions: 1. Do the - and the - forms occur more frequently in sales contracts than in general language? 2. Do English sales contracts contain more - forms used in more syntactic functions than the Spanish - in Spanish sales contracts? 3. Are both the - forms and the - forms found in all or most parts of the sales contracts retained for this study? Our study is based on two comparable corpora of English and Spanish: a legal corpus containing sales contracts, and a general corpus. Our corpora provide the following answers to the questions posed: 1. Both the - and the - forms occur more frequently in sales contracts than in general language; 2. There are more - forms in English sales contracts than there are - forms in Spanish sales contracts, but in both cases, they are used in a variety of syntactic functions; 3. Both the - forms and the - forms are found in most parts of the sales contracts used in this study.

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