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Stein, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1979
Minor grammatical errors made by German students in translating from English to German led to an investigation of the means available in the two languages for effecting text-coherence. The examples cited indicate that English has fewer possibilities than German for showing sentence perspective through surface-syntactical markers. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), German