TY - BOOK AU - Mahler,Hanna TI - Contrastive Grammar in Use: Quantitative Perspectives on the Verb Phrase in English and German T2 - Language and Computers SN - 9789004748125 AV - P57.I4 U1 - 418/.007/054 PY - 2026/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology KW - Languages and Linguistics KW - Morphology & Syntax KW - German N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as well as language teaching and translation handbooks for decades, it is probably the assumption of a more “verbal style” in English compared to German. Settling this question once and for all, the present book provides a comprehensive comparison of verbal style in English and German that pays due attention to language-internal variation by mode and register at the same time UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004748125 ER -