Umfassende Bestandsaufnahme, Beschreibung und Erklärung wesentlicher Kontraste zwischen den Strukturen des Englischen und des Deutschen

我们项目的目标是全面而详细地描述英语和德语在语法和词汇方面的主要差异。在一本主要用作大学教育教科书的专著(König&Gast 2007，“了解英语和德语的对比”)的基础上，还将对尚未完全理解的个别现象和问题进行进一步研究。具体地说，该项目涉及以下学科领域：(I)补语(重点是句子补语)，(Ii)信息结构和重音(例如动词焦点)和(Iii)名词短语的结构和解释(重点是确定和复合)。与20世纪60年代和70年代制定的旨在改善外语教学的对比语言学课程不同，我们的项目并不是为了对应用语言学做出贡献。它着重于描述英语和德语之间有趣的对比，以及对这些对比的可能解释。

The goal of our project is to provide a comprehensive and detailed description of major contrasts between English and German in both the grammar and the lexicon. Building on a monograph that was primarily intended as a text book for university education (König & Gast 2007, "Understanding English-German Contrasts"), individual phenomena and problems that have not yet been fully understood will undergo further examination. Specifically, the project is concerned with the following subject areas: (i) complementation (with emphasis on sentential complements), (ii) information structure and stress )e.g. verum focus) and (iii) the structure and interpretation of the noun phrase (with a focus on determination and compounding).In contrast to the programme of Contrastive Linguistics formulated in the 1960s and 1970s, which was primarily aimed at improving foreign language teaching, our project is not intended as a contribution to applied linguistics. It focuses on the description of interesting contrasts between English and German as well as possible explanations for these contrasts.