This is a textbook for German Studies and a critical linguistic analysis of texts; it provides a semantics of the sentence and a theory of sentence contents, and thus complements a grammatical syntax of German. The increasingly compressed style of German public language usage has complicated and muddied the relationship between sentence structure and sentence content. Clarity is restored by turning grammar round on the basis of a practical semantics.

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Peter von Polenz, Trier.