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A Contrastive Analysis of German and English Morphosyntactic Features

Author : Jenny Streb

Publisher : GRIN Verlag

Page : 59 pages

File Size : 49,38 MB

Release : 2018-07-24

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 3668757011

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: In this thesis, the accuracy of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is explored with the help of a study investigating the German L2 morphosyntactic competence of 15 English L1 speakers in two settings: a language assessment test setting as well as in online processing. Within this thesis L2 morphosyntactic competence was limited to the two investigated areas of subject-verb-agreement (SVA) as well as the distinctive verb placement in German main and subordinate clauses. Previous research has identified these two linguistic areas as being especially prone to error in adult L2 acquisition of German. Since all test takers varied in their German language proficiency levels (encompassing a range from A2 to B2 according to the CEFR) it was hypothesised that L2 learners of a B2 language proficiency level generally outperform L2 learners of a lower language proficiency level (B1 and A2) in all investigated areas. However, this hypothesis could not be affirmed since the study did not find significant differences in the morphosyntactic competence of English German L2 learners between test takers of distinctive CEF language proficiency levels.



German-English Verb Valency

Author : Klaus Fischer

Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 34,32 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Engelsk sprog

ISBN : 9783823350873

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Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Author : Danuta Gabryś

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 11,50 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847690653

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This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching.



English in the German-speaking World

Author : Raymond Hickey

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 437 pages

File Size : 30,82 MB

Release : 2019-12-05

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1108488099

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A collection of studies on the role of English in German-speaking countries, covering a broad range of topics.



Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 15,75 MB

Release : 2020-01-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1350079200

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Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.



Variational Text Linguistics

Author : Christoph Schubert

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 18,58 MB

Release : 2016-05-24

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110443554

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Owing to the ever-increasing possibilities of communication, especially with the advent of modern communication technologies, register analysis offers a constantly widening range of research opportunities. Still, research has mainly concentrated on well-established and frequent registers such as newspaper articles, while many descriptive and theoretical issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated. This volume gives a state-of-the-art insight into register studies and points out emerging trends as well as new directions for future research. Furthermore, it provides a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received an appropriate amount of attention so far. In particular, it deals with specialized offline and online registers, cross-register comparison as well as regional, contrastive, and diachronic register variation. In parallel to the new discipline of variational pragmatics, this volume aims to foster the discipline of ‘variational text linguistics’ and to initiate fundamental investigations in this area. This field of research provides new insights into the concept of register, since it covers both functional and regional types of textual variation.



New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research

Author : Carlos Prado-Alonso

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 49,34 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9783034300469

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This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars. This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interrelated, are organized into three parts or sections. Part I (Diachronic Studies) applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please, adverbs in -ly, the s- genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb get. It also examines Early Modern English regional dialect vocabulary. Part II (Diatopic Studies) is concerned with the analysis of several morphological and phonological features in different varieties of English, namely Standard English, Modern Scottish English, Galwegian English, and Black South-African English. Part III (Contrastive Studies) contains four chapters dealing with the contrastive analysis of a number of morphosyntactic features, such as the use of modifiers of adjectives by advanced learners of English, the acquisition and use of aspect by advanced EFL learners with different mother-tongue backgrounds, a comparison of the tempo-aspectual categories of English and Italian, and some of the problems encountered by researchers when compiling and analysing learner corpora of spoken language.



Translation-based corpus studies

Author : Diana Santos

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 11,3 MB

Release : 2016-08-09

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 900433372X

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This book presents a model for describing translation performance as a basis for contrastive linguistics, in the realm of tense and aspect. It is based on extensive corpus studies investigating the differences between English and Portuguese using authentic translations in the two directions. In method and substance, the book features several original claims, trying to achieve a balance between theoretical issues and the presentation of concrete translation data. In addition, it deals with computational applications of parallel corpora. Translation-based corpus studies should thus be appropriate for translator education, and for introducing contrastive semantics and the methodology of corpus linguistics to students of linguistics and computer science. Researchers in tense and aspect, translation, and corpus linguistics are, nevertheless, the book’s primary audience.



German and Dutch in Contrast

Author : Gunther Vogelaer

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 409 pages

File Size : 44,83 MB

Release : 2020-03-09

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 3110669463

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Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.