Course Description
Identification and examination of the salient structural similarities and differences between German and English.
Athena Title
Contrastive Grammar Ger Eng
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GRMN 4380, GRMN 6380, LING 4380, LING 6380
Prerequisite
GRMN 2002
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Identification and examination of the salient structural similarities and differences between German and English. Understanding of potential errors and difficulties resulting from linguistic divergence between the learner's native language and the target language. Intended to provide future teachers of German with a basic knowledge of grammatical differences between English and German.
Topical Outline
I. German and English articulatory phonetics II. German and English phonemes and phonological rules III. German inflection morphology IV. German and English syntactic rules