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Contrastive Typology of Tough-Movement Constructions

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 & typological linguistics. This emerging typological-contrastive approach combines the strength of both disciplines, ie, concentrates on fewer languages & provides an in-depth study of a given phenomenon while retaining the typological methodology & pursuing more general objectives. The present paper demonstrates how this contrastive-typological approach may complement & refine the results of the classical contrastive analysis by investigating tough-movement constructions in English & its correspondents in German, Croatian, & Hungarian.

language typology; grammatical constructions; contrastive linguistics; movement; syntax

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