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In this class, we will seek to understand some of the main linguistic contrasts between English and German. To that aim, we will survey and scrutinize major aspects of all grammatical levels: the phonetic inventory of the languages, their main phonological and morphological properties (inflection, compounding and derivation), the tense and aspect, as well as the auxiliary and modal systems of the languages and their functions. At the syntactic level, we will look into grammatical relations of English and German, differences in their constituent order, ditransitives, and the like, as well as their possessor and voice systems. We will take a close look at the strategies the languages use to form different sentence types like declarative and imperative clauses, relative clauses, wh-questions and non-finite clauses.
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