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.
Modes of study
Participation in lectures and exercises (knowledge of Finnish is required); a written final exam in German or in Finnish. Alternatively a book exam in German or in Finnish.
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.
