ABSTRACT
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 suggested that there is, and that English and German can serve as a case study for a more general typology of languages than we now have.
This volume will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, including students of Germanic languages; language typologists; generative grammarians attempting to ‘fix the parameters’ on language variation;’ historical linguists; and applied linguists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
An Overview of Some English/German Contrasts
chapter |10 pages
Introduction: The Theoretical Interest of English/German Contrasts
chapter |25 pages
Grammatical Morphology
chapter |15 pages
Word Order Freedom
chapter |21 pages
Basic Grammatical Relations and Their Semantic Diversity
chapter |11 pages
Raising Structures
chapter |28 pages
Extractions
chapter |6 pages
Deletions
part
The Position of the Verb in English and German