From contrastive linguistics to linguistic typology

Johan van der Auwera

doi:10.1075/lic.12.1.05auw

Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison

ISSN 1387-6759
E-ISSN: 1569-9897

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From contrastive linguistics to linguistic typology
Author(s): Johan van der Auwera ¹
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¹ University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Source: Languages in Contrast, Volume 12, Issue 1, Jan 2012, p. 69 - 86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.12.1.05auw

Abstract

The paper looks back at Hawkins (1986), A comparative typology of English and German, and shows, on the basis of raising and human impersonal pronouns in English, Dutch and German, that contrastive linguistics can be viewed as a pilot study in typology. It also pleads for doing the contrastive linguistics of three languages rather than of two, not least because the third language can teach us something about the other two.

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Keyword(s): contrastive linguistics; human impersonal pronoun; raising; semantic map; typology

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