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Table of contents
Forewordv
Editor’s introduction1
Part I. Issues in contrastive linguistic theory
Toward contrastive sociolinguistics11 Equivalence and congruence in transformational contrastive studies19 The measurement of contrast in contrastive linguistics29 ‘Theoretical contrastive studies’: some methodological remarks43 On cross-linguistic argumentation57 Part II. Linguistic mmodels and contrastive studies of language
Some remarks on case grammars as bases for contrastive studies71 A brief re-appraisel of contrastive linguistics119 Contrastive analysis and modern theory of language127 Contrastive generative grammar185 On some linguistic limitation of classical contrastive analysis193 Deeper and deeper contrastive analysis201 Part III. Phonology in contrastive analysis
The contrastive analysis of phonological systems215 How do phonological rules compare?225 Autosegmental phonology in contrastive linguistics: some applications237 Contrastive phonostylistics263 Part IV. Contrastive linguistics and the lexicon
The lexicon and contrastive language studies275 A note on semantic representation of lexical items and on lexical gaps293 Lexical entries for verbs in a contrastive english-german lexicon309 Part V. Syntax and semantics in contrastive linguistics
Some contrastive considerations about semantics in the communication process325 Existential sentences in english and polish347 A contrastive description of deixis in danish and english365 The role of sentence stress in the interpretation of coreferentiality in english and polish377 Towards an erasure principle for german and english infinitive complements389 Some remarks on ellipsis in english and polish403 Index of authors419
Index of terms and subjects425