Osobitosti registra njemačkog jezika, kriminologije nasilničkog kriminaliteta na leksičkoj, morfološkoj i sintaktičkoj razini
Register Characteristics (Lexical, Morphological and Syntactical) of German Used in the Criminology of Violent Crime

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the German language used in the criminology of violent crimes is based on the text corpus consisting of 21,784 tokens and 6,042 types. Words with frequency >3 cover 1,213 types and make 20.07% of the total number of the types, thus covering 73.3% of the corpus text. In addition to the statistical lexical analysis of the text, its morphological characteristics have been given with special reference to the attributing of nominal parts of a sentence. Word formation in German, through exemplification of the interpretation of the meaning of compound nouns has been presented, and the sentence level has been outlined, with special reference to attributive clauses. The first twenty lexical words Gewalt, Gewaltkriminalität, Opfer, Täter, Jahre, Straftaten, Familie, Jahren, Menschen, Frauen, Gruppen, Erpressung, Gesellschaft, jugendlichen, Zahl, vorsätzlichen, Art, Bundesrepublik, Kriminalität, Vergewaltigung, Delikte, läßt, Prozent, Raub, Verhalten, Kinder, lassen, letzten, Polizei and soziale could be considered to be the key words of the register since they define the scope of the criminology of violent crime. The purpose of this article is to point out the most important characteristics of the register and to serve as an aid for more efficient acquisition of the language of that register. It contains a minimal vocabulary of German language of the criminology of violent crime with about 1,360 words, the meanings of which have been obtained through the contextual analysis of the register corpus (analysis of concordances).

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