Kontrastive Linguistik als Mikrotypologie: Die Rolle des Deutschen als L3

Contrastive Analysis has to be understood as a micro-typology able to attain a degree of granularity which is far beyond any macro-typological research. In this regard, given its role as “global language”, English will be made fruitful for the purposes of the Contrastive Analysis and of its didactic implications insofar as it will serve as a bridge language for a micro-typology in which it is systematically contrasted in a trilateral comparison with Italian and German. In particular, the paper will focus on two case-studies centring on the verb and taken respectively from the temporal-aspectual domain as well as from the valency alternations found in specific verb classes.