Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50169#.VDSjJ1fHRK0 Author(s) Hongli Shi Affiliation(s) China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China . ABSTRACT Though Chinese and English legislative language share similarities in certain aspects, they contrast most sharply in their syntactic structures and representations, owing to a number of social, cultural and typological factors. Traditional works have directed most of their attention to the lexicon, i.e. the collection of technical terms which are indispensable to the working of law, and the analysis of idiosyncrasies of those terms. Not much effort, if any, has been at present devoted to the study of the syntactic properties of legislative lan...
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