Analysis of english sentences. Comparison of the systems CGEL and ISAAVA

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Proseminar Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Where grammatical rules derive from, how they are linked, whether they are similar in different languages or not, whether we are born with it or acquire it as infants ¿ these are questions, linguists worldwide have been dealing with for decades. Many syntactical approaches are the result of these researches. Two of them, the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) and the Introduction to Syntactic Analysis ¿ A Valency Aproach (ISAAVA), will be compared in this paper.