Sentence structure

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Sentence structure (sentence model, sentence scheme) is a term for a generalized pattern with which the form of sentences is to be described and categorized. In cases such as “The postman brings a package.” And “The girl is fetching her doll”, one can say that these sentences have the same sentence structure “ subject - predicate - direct object ”. The two sentences mentioned would be examples of “action sentences” in Brinkmann (1962). The basic idea is that only a very limited number of patterns are available for sentences. In recent grammars is sentence structure , the attempt on the basis of valence structures the syntactic basic structures of a language to be classified. The term originally comes from the content-related grammar , which combined certain basic meanings of sentences with such sentence patterns.

literature

• The grammar. 7th, completely new and expanded edition. Dudenverlag: Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005. ISBN 3-411-04047-5
• Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 .

Web links

Wiktionary: sentence structure  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henning Brinkmann: The German language. Shape and performance . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1962, p. 542ff.