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A Comparative Typology of English and German Unifying the Contrasts

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266 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities between the two languages and, in particular, looks at the question of whether contrasts in one area of the grammar is systematically related to contrasts in another, and whether there is any ‘directionality’ or unity to contrast throughout grammar as a whole. It is... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part One: An Overview of Some English/German Contrasts

1. Introduction: the Theoretical Interest of English/German Contrasts

2. Grammatical Morphology

3. Word Order Freedom

4. Basic Grammatical relations and their Semantic Diversity

5. Raising Structures

6. Extractions

7. Deletions

8. The Unity of English/German Contrasts: A Realignment in the Mapping between Form and Meaning

Part Two: The Position of the Verb in English and German