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Satzstrukturen im Deutschen und Englischen: Typologie und Textrealisierung

The monograph pursues two main, interrelated aims: 1. to contribute to the typological profiles of German and English; 2. to develop a set of instruments within valency theory that enables a data-based pursuit of 1.

Taking John A. Hawkins’s claims about the German-English contrasts as its point of departure, the volume advocates a typology of parole that allows the weighting of contrasts. A typologically useable valency framework is developed and applied to a small parallel corpus. The resulting findings on argument structures lead to a more comprehensive picture of the English-German contrasts, correcting a number of established views.

This monograph (373 pp.) covers several interrelated issues: it discusses Hawkins’ work on the typologies of German and English, and develops a comprehensive foundation of valency that serves as a basis for a comparison of the sentence structures of the two languages. A parallel corpus is completely parsed and frequencies of a range of categories are established. The data are assessed in relation to established claims. The range of the work, in particular drawing extensively on the grammars of two languages, the contribution to theory as well as the number of grammatical concepts and empirical analyses included, justifies double weighting.