A Comparative Typology of English and German

Unifying the Contrasts

John Hawkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-91922-8 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Hawkins, John

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 9. Verb-final Order in German 10. Leaking Behing the Verb in German 11. Verb-first Structures in English and German; Overview and Further Prospects; Notes; References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-91922-5 / 1138919225
ISBN-13	978-1-138-91922-8 / 9781138919228
Zustand	Neuware