Learning outcomes

To become familiar with the central syntactic description methods and grammar models (especially valency theory); to master the German syntactic structures and seeing them as a part of linguistic knowledge.

Contents

Operational tests, syntax as a part of grammar, syntactic description models, especially the valency and dependency model, its central concepts and principles, syntactic functions, clause models, clause types, a simple and a complex clause, word order.

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by written exam.

Study materials

Agreed sections from some German grammar. Piitulainen, M-L., Syntax des Deutschen. Unter Berücksichtigung des Kontrasts zum Finnischen. 2000.

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