Could the English language be in any aspect considered more conservative than German? German is typically regarded as being the second most conservative Germanic language after Icelandic, but in your opinion, is there any linguistic aspect where English could be considered more conservative than German?

English Syntax: Thematic Roles I have a question regarding thematic roles in English and their assignment to NP arguments in sentences, consider the following sentence: "Mary announced the news to John" We know that the NP "John has the theta role of "Goal" or "Benefactive", but how is this thematic role assigned? In terms of theta-government?

"vorher", "zuvor" and "früher" I often use these adverbs in the wrong context, what I would truly appreciate from any German native speaker is an explanation on when exactly to use each the aforementioned attributes, when talking about an event that happened previously. Ex: "..Das, was ich vorher/zuvor/früher erwähnt habe.." on this example, what would you recommend me to use and why?

Bachelor Thesis: Is English a Germanic language? Hello everybody, I am on my last bachelor year and I have chosen to write about whether English is truly a Germanic language or not. This topic must be divided in 3 or 4 parts but there is a lot I could talk about, such as a comparison between Old English, Middle English and Modern English as well as comparisons between English and other Germanic languages.. I am not quite sure how start and I felt compelled to ask you the following: if you were in my place, what would you write on an outline of 4 or 3 points? Or what would you write on your outline?

GERMAN: Sentence structure Which of these two structures would you consider to be correct? Ich habe angefangen zu reisen Or: Ich habe zu reisen angefangen Moreover, I was told that the auxiliary must always be put at the end of a sentence, but while talking to a German friend of mine, they said the following: "..und mich währenddessen immer hab ablenken lassen" Was that correct in terms of structure or should the auxiliary (hab) have been put at the end of the sentence?