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Pronouns & Basic Sentence Structure

Personal pronouns, verb-second rule, sein/haben and basic questions
Morphologische Typologie des Deutschen
Morphological typology of German
fusional with agglutinative tendencies
German as a fusional language with rich morphology
Derivation: Produktivität messen
Derivation: measuring productivity
type/token ratios for suffixes
Quantitative measures of suffix productivity
Komposition: Kopfprinzip und Rektion
Composition: head principle and government
right-hand head rule in German compounds
The rightmost element determines category and gender
Fugenelemente: Verteilung und Geschichte
Linking elements: distribution and history
-s-, -(e)n-, -es-, -er- linking morphemes
Origins and distribution of compound linking elements
Konversion: Substantivierung von Verben
Conversion: nominalisation of verbs
das Lernen, der Lauf, der Wurf
Zero-derivation and infinitive nominalisation
Präfixverben: Trennbarkeit und Semantik
Prefix verbs: separability and semantics
übersetzen (translate) vs übersetzen (ferry across)
Stress and separability change meaning
Wortbildung mit Konfixen
Word formation with confixes
bio-, öko-, -thek, -nom
Bound combining forms in modern German
Lehnwortbildung und Anglizismen
Loanword formation and anglicisms
downloaden, gedownloadet/downgeloadet
Integration of English verbs into German morphology
Flexionsmorphologie: starke vs schwache Verben
Inflectional morphology: strong vs weak verbs
ablaut classes vs dental suffix
Diachronic and synchronic verb class system
Paradigmatische Analogien im Deutschen
Paradigmatic analogies in German
regularisation: backte→buk→backte
How analogy reshapes German inflectional paradigms