Course: Syntax of the Contemporary German Language

ECTS credits: 4

Language: German

Duration: one semester

Status: obligatory

Course type: 2 hours of lesson

Enrolment requirements: course “Morphology of the Contemporary German Language”

Course description: The course covers following topics: grammar as a linguistic discipline, syntax; sentence definitions; basic syntactic structures - German and Croatian in contrast; sentence members; Satzrahmen; Ausklammerung; Dependence Grammar; Valency syntactic models - German and Croatian in contrast

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to: identify syntactic structures in German language based on traditional grammar and the theory of valency; use syntactically correct utterances; describe valency structures and to recognize their characteristics; explain syntactic structures on examples from contemporary German language.

Teaching methods: teacher-led demonstrations Literature: Zrinjka Glovacki-Bernardi, Gramatika njemačkog jezika, 3. izd. 2017.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, preliminary exams (written), oral exam