Core sentence

In German grammar, the core sentence can mean the following:

general: a sentence of particular importance that expresses a "core idea".
in traditional grammar: as much as verb second sentence .
in Generative Grammar : an elementary syntactic structure in the deep structure . Example: Sentences like "Hans is coming", "Hans is coming?", "Hans is not coming", "... because Hans is coming." Contain the same elementary syntactic structure and thus the same proposition that results from derive the various syntactically correct sentences ( surface structures ) through certain grammatical operations.
In the language typology : a statement sentence that is as simple as possible ( core sentence (language typology) ), which is used for the linguistic realization of a proposition .

Individual evidence

↑ Duden - German Universal Dictionary . 6th, revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-411-05506-5 , keyword core sentence .