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Given that Contrastive Generative Grammar is based on grammars organized along five components: semantic, categorial, syntactic, lexical, and post-lexical, arranged hierarchically from the most abstract to the most concrete, it is possible to expect diversifications to occur on all subsemantic levels. According to Contrastive Generative Grammar, all equivalent constructions share a certain number of rules, before they become diversified by the first rule which is different. The input to the rule which accounts for the first diversification in each case provides the Immediately Relevant 32 Chapter III tertium comparationis by specifying the common grammatical categories in terms of auxiliary symbols employed in the rules.
His typology embraces the following kinds of equivalence: Towards a classification of contrastive studies 25 formal — based on linguistic structure; derivational-semantic — connected with the "depth" of the derivation; paraphrase procedure — which yields "regressum ad infinitum"· translation procedure — limited by truth conditions and culturespecific considerations; and functional-communicative — involving "mental processes of cognition and associative connotative components" (Kühlwein 1983: 6).
In Polish and Italian, the respective rules are non-congruent with their English and French equivalents as they yield different results. Notably in Polish and Italian the underlying pronouns do not appear in the extraposed sentences: (15) (16) Ν on e sorprendente che il vino sia diventato aceto. Nie jest niczym dziwnym, ze wino skwasnialo. Due to the lack of explicitly stated tertia comparationis expressed in some universal terms (such as a semantic representation of the compared items), typical classical contrastive studies were directional: depending on the aims of a particular contrastive analysis, one could start with a description of linguistic forms in L, and match them for comparison with equivalent items in L 2 .