Relevant aspects about German prepositions for Spanish speakers

This paper aims to prove that the German preposition is a grammatical category that,from a structural-functional perspective and also from a discursive one, is nothing to sniff at. This is so due to the treatment it has received for the last 80 years or so by traditional grammar. It has been underva...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Gierden, Carmen
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:uvadoc______::caeb346e10c7d9a4fa927032f438cc85
Acesso em linha:https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/84013
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:applied linguistics
teaching German as a foreign language
verb valency
syntax
complex prepositional groups
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Resumo:This paper aims to prove that the German preposition is a grammatical category that,from a structural-functional perspective and also from a discursive one, is nothing to sniff at. This is so due to the treatment it has received for the last 80 years or so by traditional grammar. It has been undervalued by considering it a tiny item (Hoffmann,2010: 52) with an aspect of minor category (Bednarský,2002: 85) and atony (Alcina &Blecua,1991: 496). In line with this we believe that its importance should be nuanced for the progress of the discipline. So this paper will focus on defining and systematizing prepositional constructions from a syntactic, pragmatic-discoursive perspective. This should be useful to Spanish speakers to better understand the functioning of the German language in this aspect. To fully configure its sense,our emphasis will be in the selective relations steered by the verb valency and the speaker’s intention alluding to the Spanish language.