ECTS | Credits

6 ECTS

Ciclo de Estudos | Degree 

1.o Ciclo | Undergraduate

Semestre | Semester

1.o Semestre | Autumn Semester

Docente(s) | Faculty 

Jakob Maché

Língua de ensino | Language of instruction 

Inglês | English

Programa (na língua de ensino) | Course description (in the language of instruction)

This course aims at providing an overview over several aspects of German grammar and contrasting them to other languages known by the course participants, all above Portuguese and English.

This course will address the following aspects of German grammar:

  1. What is grammar? Why grammar? Why research on grammar
  2.  Phonetics (Ladefoged/Johnson 2011, Pompino-Marschall 2009, Wiese 1996;
    Wiese 2010)
  3. Segmental Phonology (Gussenhoven/Jacobs 2015, Hall 2011, Wiese 1996; Wiese 2010)
  4. Prosody and Intonation (Ladd 2008, Grice, Baumann/Benzmüller 2005, Peters 2018)
  5. Morphology (Haspelmath/Sims 2010, Fleischer/Barz 2012, Eisenberg 2013a)
  6.  Syntax (Müller 2013, Butt 2006, Eisenberg 2013b)

Avaliação (na língua de ensino) | Grading and Assessment (in the language of instruction)

  1. Participation (Homework, smaller tasks, discussion) 25 %
  2. One test: 35 %
  3.  Oral presentation: 15%
  4. Written paper: 25 %

Bibliografia (selection) | Bibliography (selection)

  • Eisenberg, Peter (2013a). Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik: Das Wort. 4a ed. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Metzler.
  • Eisenberg, Peter (2013b). Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik: Der Satz. 4a ed. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Metzler.
  • Engel, Ulrich (1996). Deutsche Grammatik. 3a ed. Heidelberg: Groos.
  • Helbig, Gerhard and Joachim Buscha (2001). Deutsche Grammatik: ein Handbuch für den Ausländerunterricht. Berlin: Langenscheidt.
  • Schäfer, Roland (2017). Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen. 2a ed. Vol. 2.Textbooks in Language Sciences. Berlin: Language Science Press.
  • Wöllstein, Angelika, ed. (2016). Duden, die Grammatik: unentbehrlich für richtiges Deutsch. 9a ed. Vol. 4. Der Duden. Mannheim: Dudenverlag.
  • Zifonun, Gisela (1997). Grammatik der deutschen Sprache. Berlin: de Gruyter.