Die deutschen Kasus und ihre semantisch-syntaktischen Funktionen
The German classes and their semantic-syntactical functions

Author(s): Wilhelm Oppenrieder
Subject(s): Language studies, Syntax, Semantics
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: German; usage classes; grammar; semantics; syntax;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I propose different usage classes of the grammatical cases in German: a) as meaning-related (typically adverbial) uses vs. b) a-semantic syntactic-constructional uses with two subgroups b1) constructional uses with a governing element and b2) without such an element. Concerning the a)-cases there are for example nominal phrases with genitive case used as temporal adverbials (eines schönen Tages) or modal adverbials (leichten Sinnes); as for b1) we have genitive marked objects (des Diebstahls beschuldigen), or genitive case governed by prepositions (wegen des Umzugs); members of the class b2) are attributively used nominal phrases, which have genitive case irrespective of the head noun or the semantical relation between head noun and attributive nominal phrase (Begrenzung der Kosten, Stein der Weisen). For all grammatical cases the possible uses in these three groups will be studied.

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