SOME INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PROBLEMS

• Die Indirekte Rede im Englischen und das Past Morphem
  (Reported Speech and the Past Morpheme)
  Vom unausrottbaren Mythos, daß es in der Indirekten Rede eine Zeitenfolge gäbe. Natürlich gibt es keine!


• If-clauses
  Conditional clauses
  Auch bei den Bedingungssätzen gibt es keine Zeitenfolge.
  


• Continuous
  Whatever has 'continuous' to do with an action that 'continues' or 'progresses' or is 'expanded'?
  Leuschner, Burkhard, Using continuous and non-continuous (simple) verbal parts


• Perfect
  Perfect - for an action that continues up to the moment of speaking (and then stops all of a sudden or what?) or for an action that takes place during a period that borders on the present (the whole past does so, doesn't it?)?
  Leuschner, Burkhard, The perfect, Form - meaning - usage

• Will
  Does will express futurity? Never ever! No more so than, say, can or must.
  
• Leuschner, Burkhard, The [modal] auxiliary will, Usage situations
  

• Valences
  Sentences are like molecules, and while the structure of a molecule depends on the valences of its atoms, that of the sentence depends on the valences of the full verb in its verbal part.
  Leuschner, Burkhard (1971), Linguistik und Schulgrammatik - Ein Beispiel, Linguistische Berichte 11, 82-89

TEXT GRAMMAR
There is grammar beyond the sentence level, and the same basic rules apply that are valid on the sentence level and below.

• Communicatemes
  Leuschner, Burkhard (1975), Grundstrukturen des Kommunikatems, Ein Problem der Textgrammatik, in: Engel U./Schumacher, H. (Hrsg.) Kongreßbericht der 6. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Band IV, Linguistik/Beschreibung der Gegenwartssprachen, Heidelberg: Groos, 1-25
• Paragraphs
  Leuschner, Burkhard (1972), Grundstrukturen des 'Paragraphs', Ein Problem der Textgrammatik, Linguistische Berichte 21, 80-95

WORD GRAMMAR

• Noun classes
  Not all uncountables are singular, there are also plural uncountables.
  [Real soon now]

Last updated 8.9.2009
Burkhard Leuschner