Original scientific paper

CONTRASTIVE TYPOLOGY OF TOUGH-MOVEMENT CONSTRUCTIONS

Mario Brdar ; Pedagoški fakultet, Osijek

Abstract

After a period of stagnation of contrastive studies, there has recently been a revival of interest in contrastive research which can be related, among other factors, to a tendency towards a cross-fertilization of contrastive linguistics and typological linguistics. This emerging typological-contrastive approach combines the strength of both disciplines, i.e. concentrates on fewer languages and provides an in-depth study of a given phenomenon while retaining the typological methodology and pursuing more general objectives. The present paper demonstrates how this contrastive-typological approach may complement and refine the results of the classical contrastive analysis by taking a look at tough-movement constructions in English and its correspondents in German, Croatian and Hungarian.

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Hrčak ID:

157400

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/157400

Publication date:

28.4.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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