Publication details
Zum Erklärungswert von Dependenz- und Phrasenstruktursyntax für den DaF-Unterricht
| Title in English | Remarks on the explanatory force of dependency syntax and constituency syntax for teaching German as a foreign language |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brünner Hefte zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | dependency syntax; constituency; phrase structure grammar; German as a foreign language; syntax; embedded clauses |
| Description | In syntax, there are two principles for building up sentence structure: dependency and constituency. The article demonstrates that students of German as a foreign language could deduce certain facts of word order, especially the verb-final position in German embedded clauses, directly from a phrase structure representation, while they need additional rules when using a dependency representation. Nevertheless, I refrain from unequivocally recommending the use of phrase-structure grammars for German as a foreign language. Drawing on both types of syntactic modeling might be helpful, as long as there is no uncontrolled mixing of both principles. |