This introduction provides students, teachers, and readers interested in linguistics with a first glimpse into the central theoretical concepts of grammatical text analysis: text, sentence, and word group elements. The "top-down" description of the grammatical system of contemporary German is complemented by example analyses and exercises related to specific topics.

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Vilmos Ágel , Maria Gallinat , Kristin George and Laura Sievers , University of Kassel, Germany.