10 Questions
What is the typical nature of the mapping between ontological and linguistic categories?
Many-to-many
What is the requirement for the domains of meaning covered by a given linguistic category?
They must be semantically similar
What is the purpose of comparative concepts in linguistics?
To make generalizations across functional domains
Who authored the book 'Teaching and learning English as a foreign language'?
Charles Carpenter Fries
What is the title of the 2012 publication by Volker Gast?
Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods
What is the name of the journal where Michel Doherty's 2001 article was published?
Languages in Contrast
What is the name of the revised edition of the book by Ekkehard König and Volker Gast?
Understanding English-German Contrasts
What is the title of the 2009 publication by Ekkehard König and Volker Gast?
Understanding English-German Contrasts
What is the main focus of contrastive linguistics?
Comparing linguistic structures across languages
What is the name of the author who wrote 'Discourse Relators and the Beginnings of Sentences in English and German'?
Michel Doherty
Learn about contrastive linguistics, a branch of comparative linguistics that focuses on pairs of socio-culturally linked languages. Understand the criteria for socio-cultural linkage and how it applies to linguistics. Test your knowledge of contrastive linguistics and its applications.
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