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German: A Grammatical Sketch

Subject Areas: German

2015 in Tibor Kiss & Artemis Alexiadou (Eds): Syntax – Theory and Analysis: An International Handbook, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Verlag, 1447–1478.

This paper provides an overview of the most important grammatical properties of German. A large part of the paper is concerend with the basic clause types of German. I start with the Topological Fields Model, which is very useful as a descriptive tool, but – as will be shown – not sufficient for a thorough account of German clausal structure. I therefore explain additional theoretical assumptions that were made in order to assign structure to the observable linear sequences. After a sketch of an analysis of the basic sentence patterns, I give an account of passive, case assignment, and subject-verb agreement.

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