German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German follows SVO word order. Additionally, German...
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In grammar, sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of...
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are always feminine. German sentence structure is similar to other Germanic languages in its use of V2 word order. Standard German phonology Durrell &...
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Syntactic ambiguity (redirect from Ambiguous sentence structure)
collection of all possible syntactic structures, known as parse trees, that can represent the ambiguous sentence's meanings. The task of clarifying which...
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grammars, which base their assumed structure on the relationship between a single word in a sentence (the sentence head) and its dependents. GPSG was...
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sentence structure. One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences is by clause structure, the number and types of clauses in the sentence with...
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an appropriate German word. Rules representing regular English sentence structure. Rules representing regular German sentence structure. And finally, we...
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languages, sentences with adverbial or prepositional predicate show a distinctly different structure. The relation of nominal sentences to verbal sentences is...
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root verb. When attached, these prefixes are always stressed. German sentence structure normally places verbs in second position or final position. For...
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A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the...
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Head-directionality parameter (category Articles containing German-language text)
preference on all levels of dependency structure as it consistently attempts to position the head as early on in the sentence even though it produces a longer...
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Genitiv sein Tod German adjectives German adverbial phrases German compounds German conjugation German modal particles German sentence structure Germanic strong...
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hierarchical structure. The constituent structure of sentences is identified using tests for constituents. These tests apply to a portion of a sentence, and the...
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Topic and comment (redirect from Theme (sentence topic))
girl. In English it is also possible to use other sentence structures to show the topic of the sentence, as in the following: As for the little girl, the...
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of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject). For the simple sentence John runs, John is the subject...
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Proposition (redirect from Structured proposition)
propositions are not linguistic expressions, so the English sentence "Snow is white" and the German "Schnee ist weiß" denote the same proposition. Propositions...
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Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and...
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A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material...
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registers in German. Their dual function is to reflect the mood or the attitude of the speaker or the narrator and to highlight the sentence's focus. Often...
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lexical items and/or arguments that are in the same argument structure of a predicate. In sentence (1a), boy and himself are lexical items that serve as external...
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Scrambling (linguistics) (section Examples from German)
clause in German. The 'midfield' is a position within the sentence structure, with 'frontfield' and 'endfield' acting like bookends for the sentence (usually...
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Time–manner–place (category Articles containing German-language text)
typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the...
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captured and disarmed German officers kept under Allied guard in Amsterdam, Netherlands imposed a death sentence upon two former German deserters from the...
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meaning, thus arguing for the independence of syntax (the study of sentence structures) from semantics (the study of meaning). Based on lecture notes he...
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videos. Miller's constructed language, known in full as "CORRECT-SENTENCE-STRUCTURE-COMMUNICATION-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR" (shortened as "C.-S.-S.-C.-P.-S...
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V2 word order (section German)
In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position...
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France (Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the major languages of the world, with nearly...
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that the structure of sentence (1) obeys the rules of English grammar. This can be seen by comparing sentence (1) with sentence (2). Both sentences have the...
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month in German magazines such as Rock Hard and Metal Hammer. 1996 and the following year, saw Sentenced on a worldwide success crusade. Sentenced's fifth...
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German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November...
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