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Past Tenses & Future

Perfect tense, simple past (Präteritum) and future with werden
Tempussystem: vollständige Analyse
Tense system: complete analysis
six tenses; periphrastic forms
Comprehensive analysis of the German tense system
Konjunktiv I in der Pressesprache
Subjunctive I in journalistic language
Der Minister sagte, er sei…
Indirect speech conventions in German media
Konjunktiv II: Konditionalgefüge
Subjunctive II: conditional constructions
real, potential, irreal conditionals
Typology of German conditional sentences
Modalität: Modalverben und Modalwörter
Modality: modal verbs and modal words
müssen/sollen/wollen + modal adverbs
Comprehensive German modality system
Passiv: Diathese und Perspektivierung
Passive: diathesis and perspectivisation
agent demotion, patient promotion
Functional motivations for passive voice
Infinite Konstruktionen: Kohärenz
Infinite constructions: coherence
coherent (clause union) vs incoherent infinitives
Restructuring phenomena in German infinitives
Partizipialkonstruktionen im Nominalstil
Participial constructions in nominal style
der die Prüfung bestehende Student
Extended attributes in formal written German
Verbvalenz und Ergänzungen
Verb valency and complements
obligatory vs optional complements
Valency theory applied to German verbs
Satzgefüge: Hypotaxe und Parataxe
Clause combining: hypotaxis and parataxis
subordination vs coordination depth
Complexity in German sentence structure
Diskurskonnektoren: Klassifikation
Discourse connectors: classification
additive, adversative, causal, concessive
Taxonomy of German discourse connectors