Although the tradition of contrastive linguistics has a very long history,
the approach to this type of studies has been constantly changing with
the emergence of new linguistic theories and approaches to understanding
the notion of language. Today, the scope of contrastive studies ranges
from formal to functional and pragmatic linguistics, from structuralism
through generativism to cognitivism, and from theoretical analyses to
corpus linguistics. The present book focuses on the variety of the possible
approaches to contrasting languages. Thus, the authors who have contributed
to this monograph represent various methodologies and schools of
analysis: formal, functional, cognitive, pragmatic, and cultural-linguistic
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