Re-evaluating comparative analysis between English and German: from Indo-European perspectives
There has been much work concerning the comparative analysis on English and German (e.g. Hawkins 1986), but there is an area still less studied. Diachronic comparative studies in these languages show a typologically unique diversity within a same language family. What is used as a key factor in this paper is alignment change.
Alignment can involve various linguistic features, but what various
