This paper is going to provide an insight into contrasts between the English and German language. Due to a shared origin from the Indo-European languages, the two languages are perceived to be similar enough to have sufficient things in common in order to establish comparability but are at the same time also distinctive enough to show significant contrasts. The essential theme of this paper argues that English and German may exhibit formal parallels on the surface, however, accommodate very different underlying usages and internal structures. Due to a limited length of this paper the discussion of contrasts is restricted to the resultative and narrative usage of the Present Perfect tense as well as to declarative main clauses in the syntax.
Table of Content
1. Introduction
2. Differences in the Present Perfect tense
3. Differences in Declarative Main Clauses
4. Theoretical background
4.1. The Universal Grammar approach
4.2. The Competition Model
5. Conclusion and Future Outlook
6. References
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- Jenny Streb (Autor), 2017, A Contrastive Analysis of the English and the German Present Perfect Tense and their Main Declarative Clauses, Múnich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/428611
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