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Contrastive Linguistics: English and German

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The present chapter aims to give an overview of the most important structural differences between English and German. It will reconsider some issues discussed earlier in this book, albeit from a decidedly different point of view, and explore how the basic structural differences between English and German are related to each other.

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Kortmann, B. (2020). Contrastive Linguistics: English and German. In: English Linguistics. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05678-8_5

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