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Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjective endings, comparatives, superlatives and adverbs
Adjektivsemantik: Skalenstruktur
Adjective semantics: scale structure
gradable vs non-gradable; open/closed scales
Semantic typology of German adjectives
Erweiterte Partizipialattribute
Extended participial attributes
die von der Regierung beschlossenen Maßnahmen
Complex pre-nominal participial phrases (Nominalstil)
Adverbiale Bestimmungen: Topologie
Adverbials: topology
TeKaMoLo ordering and its violations
Default and marked adverbial ordering
Gradpartikeln und Fokussemantik
Focus particles and focus semantics
nur, sogar, auch, selbst — alternatives
Focus-sensitive particles and alternative semantics
Satzadverbien: epistemisch und evaluativ
Sentence adverbs: epistemic and evaluative
vielleicht, hoffentlich, leider, angeblich
Speaker-oriented sentence adverbials
Komparation: Vergleichskonstruktionen
Comparison: comparative constructions
je…desto, umso…als
Complex comparative correlative constructions
Adjektiv-Rektion und Präpositionalattribute
Adjective government and prepositional attributes
stolz auf, fähig zu, reich an
Adjectives requiring specific prepositions and cases
Stilistik: Nominalstil in der Fachsprache
Stylistics: nominal style in technical language
high noun density, deverbal nouns
Characteristic features of German technical writing
Modale Lesarten von Adverbien
Modal readings of adverbs
wohl, schon, eben as modal vs temporal
Adverbs with both temporal and modal interpretations
Phraseologie: Kollokationen und Idiome
Phraseology: collocations and idioms
ins Gras beißen, Daumen drücken
Fixed expressions and their grammatical behaviour