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Prepositions, Conjunctions & Complex Sentences

Two-way prepositions, conjunctions and subordinate clause word order
Textgrammatik: Kohäsion und Kohärenz
Text grammar: cohesion and coherence
reference, substitution, ellipsis, connectives
Devices creating textual coherence in German
Soziolinguistik: Variation im Deutschen
Sociolinguistics: variation in German
diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic variation
Dimensions of variation in the German language
Plurizentrik: D-A-CH-Standards
Pluricentricity: German-Austrian-Swiss standards
Bundesdeutsch, österr. Deutsch, Schweizerhochdeutsch
German as a pluricentric language
Pragmatik: Sprechakte und Höflichkeit
Pragmatics: speech acts and politeness
directness, Höflichkeitsformen, Sie/du
Politeness theory in the German context
Gesprächsanalyse: Turn-Taking
Conversation analysis: turn-taking
turn construction, repair, overlaps
Conversation analytic study of spoken German
Fachsprachen: Merkmale und Register
Technical languages: features and register
nominal style, terminology, passive
Linguistic features of German technical registers
Sprachwandel: aktuelle Tendenzen
Language change: current tendencies
genitive loss, English influence, analytic trends
Ongoing changes in contemporary German
Sprachkontakt: Anglizismen und Denglisch
Language contact: anglicisms and Denglisch
downloaden, das Meeting, Sinn machen
English influence on modern German
Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Erwerbsforschung
German as a foreign language: acquisition research
acquisition order, error analysis
Second language acquisition research on German
Korpuslinguistik: deutsche Korpora
Corpus linguistics: German corpora
DWDS, DeReKo, COSMAS
Computational resources for studying German