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mnity to such a special language register, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions are selected from a limited register .Pronouns are rare and limited to “it” so as to avoid any possible random reference.
Nominalization refers to a noun phrase whose headword is an abstract noun derived from another word class, usually a verb or an adjective. The following examples may shed some light on how such transformations are completed.
 Nouns and Nominalizations of Verbs
 
 verb nominalization
insure Insurance
construct construction 
fulfill  fulfillment
notify  notification
withdraw  withdrawal 

 
 There are two reasons why nouns are so widespread in English contracts. First, John Joseph once stated "an advantage of this reification of process is that it makes them much easier to organize into an argument" (Joseph 1995:7). In English adjectives are plentiful and productive in comparison with adverbs, which facilitate to form an argumentation by transforming verbs into nouns. Moreover, nouns can qualify to modify nouns.
 Second, frequent use of nouns and noun phrases is an important feature that helps to distinguish English legal documents because nouns and noun phrases are in conformity with the formal style required by English legal documents. The following example may illustrate the advantage of normalizations.
 Unacceptable version: That the L/C complies with what is stipulated in the Contract is of vital importance.
 Acceptable version: The compliance of the L/C with the stipulation of the Contract is of vital importance
 This case illustrates the satisfactory effect brought by nominalization. The acceptable version turns the long subject clause into a noun phrase by introducing the noun form of "comply": "compliance", which facilitates understanding and is in agreement of the solemnity of English contracts.
 Now that we have dealt with the lexical features of contracts, it is necessary that we get a clear picture of the grammatical features of contracts which may overlap the features we talked above. An analysis of them at length will in a long way facilitate our translation and play a positive role in guiding us to give a proper and precise translation of contracts in the future.
 3.2 Grammatical Features
 To illustrate the specialty in grammar and structure of contract translation, a piece of a typical insurance contract's beginning part quoted from Varieties of English (1988:299) will show the grammatical features in both languages:

I. WHEREAS a proposal to effect with the Society an assurance on the Life Insured named in the Schedule hereto has been duly made and signed as basis of such assurance and a declaration has been made agreeing that this policy shall be subject to the Society's Registered Rules (which shall be deemed to form part of this policy) to the Table of Insurance printed hereon and to the terms and conditions of the said Table and that the date of entrance stated hereon shall be deemed to be the date of this contract AND such proposal has been accepted by the Society on the conditions as set forth in the proposal.
 II. NOW this policy issued by the Society on payment of the first premium stated in the Schedule hereto subject to the Registered Rules of 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。