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Grammatik

Deutsch

Grammatik der deutschen Sprache
(Grammar of the German Language)

by:

Gisela Zifonun, Ludger Hoffmann, Bruno Strecker

and

Joachim Ballweg, Ursula Brauße, Eva Breindl, Ulrich Engel,
Helmut Frosch, Ursula Hoberg, Klaus Vorderwülbecke

Schriften des Instituts für deutsche Sprache, Vol. 7

3 volumes. 2569 pages; 68 figures; 108 tables; clothbound
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Grammatik der deutschen Sprache (Grammar of the German Language) provides a comprehensive account of the central component of linguistic knowledge. The grammar is innovative in a number of ways:

  • It is an empirically-based functional grammar supported by corpus evidence.
  • It deals with spoken German and the grammar of text and discourse, topics hitherto neglected in reference grammars.
  • It lays the foundations of a sentence-semantic perspective.
  • It closely links syntactic and semantic categorisation within the categorial grammar framework.

Its theoretical foundations are functional grammar and pragmatics, categorial grammar, logical syntax and semantics, and valency grammar.
Target readership: Linguists and readers with a keen interest in discursive grammatical explanation. The grammar can be used as a reference text for grammar teaching and as the basis for computer-assisted language learning or natural language processing applications.
Table of Contents:
The main section of the Grammar consists of chapters A to H.
A   Introduction
B   Basic Concepts
Word classes, word groups, the sentence and the minimal communicative unit
C   Text and discourse
Illocution, orality and literacy, discourse and text-specific forms, construction of discourse and texts
D   Functional analysis
Sentence modality, predicates, arguments and modifiers, speaker-hearer relationship
E   Compositionality
Categorial functional structure, complements, supplements (adjuncts), realisation of complements and supplements, linear structure
F   Verb groups
tense, mood and modality, passive voice, event structure, modal verbs
G   Phrases
Noun phrases, prepositions and prepositional phrases, infinitival and participial constructions
H   Subordination and Coordination
Service Chapters: detailed table of contents, bibliography, list of sources, glossary of symbols and abbreviations, topic index, alphabetical index
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