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Intermediary Language

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Intermediary Language 

in applied linguistics, a system of correspondence, based on logic, between two or more languages that provides translations according to the following rule: language,-intermediary language-language2. In this case, the intermediary language constitutes an abstract model that contains a special conceptual vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules for transforming the structures of one language into the structures of another by means of a generalized, or deep, base language.

V. A. VINOGRADOV



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The contract calls for technology development that will focus on the "Interlingua" technique, a type of "universal translator," or intermediary language that enables foreign languages to be converted into English with a minimum of human translation or training.
8) In this early period, Bashevis also translated the Norwegian writer, Knut Hamsun, via the German, thus already validating the later common practice of translating his own works through an intermediary language rather than the original.
 
 
 
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