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 Deutsch

Vol. 7 Schriften des Instituts für deutsche Sprache

Grammar of the German Language

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.

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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.

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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