Contrasting English And German Grammar

Author : Sigrid Beck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110346192
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contrasting English and German Grammar written by Sigrid Beck and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.

Author : Theresa Schmidt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640552199
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Structural Differences Within a Linguistic Comparison of English and German Grammar written by Theresa Schmidt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: HpS Contrastive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Introduction Since German and English both belong to the same family of languages, i.e. West Germanic, they are - at least, from an historical point of view - closely related languages. By investigating their respective grammatical structures it is to be discussed whether the existing structural contrasts between English and German grammar are related as well. Within this paper the most general and basic of the occurring differences will be summarised and analysed by taking John Hawkins' A Comparative Typology of English and German. Unifying the Contrasts as a basic source. Hawkins argues that where German and English contrast the latter tends to show less correspondence between form and meaning. This is due to his central hypothesis which says that it is possible to establish general principles which unite the major contrasts between both languages (cf. 4). Hawkins assumes that the differences within the grammatical structures are not accidental ones; they are rather systematic and can be traced back to one "ultimate trigger " (5) in the history of the English language - phonological changes which caused all further structural differences as either direct or indirect consequences of this process (cf. 5-7). The attempt of this paper is to draw conclusions from this knowledge of the common historical background and apply it to the modern "versions" of the German and English language and the major patterns of variation. To get a descriptive and lucid image of the contrasts between the two languages, we first start on the level of individual words by considering their morphological structure, i.e. we will examine the inflection of the verb and the case marking of noun phrases. This will lead us directly to questi

Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Typology of English and German written by John A. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3476056783
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Linguistics written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the completely revised, updated and enlarged 2nd edition of a classic textbook used in many English and linguistics departments in Germany for more than 20 years. It serves both as an introduction for beginners and as a companion for more advanced undergraduate and graduate students, familiarizing its readers with the major and distinctive properties of English (Standard English as well major national, regional and social varieties), including an in-depth structural comparison with German. Written in an accessible style and with many reader-friendly features (including checklists with key terms and concepts, basic and advanced exercises with solutions), the book offers a state-of-the-art-survey of the core terminology and issues of the central branches of linguistics, including an account of the major current research traditions and methodologies.

Author : Victor Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Comparative Grammar of English and German written by Victor Henry and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cecile Zorach
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
ISBN 13 : 9780340815762
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar for Students of German written by Cecile Zorach and published by Hodder Arnold. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers explanations of grammatical terms and functions as they apply to English and German. It illustrates the similarities and differences between the two languages and stresses the common linguistics pitfalls for English speakers. It includes review exercises with answers at the back.

Author : Cecile Zorach
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
ISBN 13 : 9780340741993
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar for Students of German written by Cecile Zorach and published by Hodder Arnold. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To assist in mastering German grammar, this text explains a concept as it applies to English and presents the same concept as it applies to German. It illustrates the differences between the two languages and guides the selection of the correct form.

Author : Herbert Leopold Kufner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The grammatical Structures of English and German written by Herbert Leopold Kufner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ekkehard König
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding English-German Contrasts written by Ekkehard König and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kerstin Kunz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110711079
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion written by Kerstin Kunz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology. This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts. Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.