Elke Teich teaches at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.

• 1 Introduction1.1 Goals1.2 Motivation1.3 Methods1.4 Road map through this book2 State-of-the-art2.1 Introduction2.2 Multilingual research: objectives and methods2.3 Hawkins' comparative typology of English and German2.4 Doherty's research on English-German contrasts in translations2.5 Baker's universal features of translations2.6 Contrastive linguistics: register analysis2.7 Summary and conclusions3 Theory and Model of cross-linguistic variation3.1 Introduction3.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: theory and model3.3 Model of multilinguality3.4 Summary and envoi4 System: English-German grammatical contrasts and commonalities4.1 Introduction4.2 The grammar of the clause4.3 Other ranks4.4 Summary of major contrasts and commonalities5 Text: English-German parallel, multilingually comparable and monolingually comparable texts5.1 Introduction5.2 Hypotheses and their testing5.3 Analyses and interpretation of hypotheses5.4 Summary and conclusions6 Summary and conclusions6.1 Summary: Cross-linguistic variation in multilingual texts6.2 Assessment of the methodology6.3 Envoi: Other contexts of application and issues for future researchAppendix A: Text sourcesAppendix B: Statistical tableAppendix C: Analysis results in tabular formNotesReferencesSubject IndexAuthor Index