i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. State-of-the-art -- Chapter 3. Theory and model of cross-linguistic variation -- Chapter 4. System: English-German grammatical contrasts and commonalities -- Chapter 5. Text: English-German comparable texts and translations -- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusions -- Appendix A: Text sources -- Appendix Β: Statistical table -- Appendix C: Analysis results in tabular form -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index