GRIMMATIK

German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-3-89586-720-0
Verlag: LINCOM

Buch, Englisch, Band 26

Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics

Bringing together German grammar and the Brothers’ Grimm fairy tales offers a different and thematically unifying approach to learning and reviewing German grammar and it introduces students to the original German texts of the world-known and beloved fairy tales. The rationale for GRIMMATIK (coined of the name of the brothers, Grimm, and the German word for grammar – Grammatik) is to offer a learner-oriented, research-based concept of German grammar to intermediate students of German. GRIMMATIK addresses a multiple variety of grammatical elements in the analysis of every selected fairy tale.

It is the student who finally constructs a German grammar, consecutively isolating the elements of speech, phrases, and sentence structures. Recognition of language patterns leads to paradigm segmentation and classification and eventually to internalization of language rules and the acquisition of grammatical competence. GRIMMATIK includes new technology and it offers tools to students to find lexical and structural patterns using the free Grimm Corpora on the Internet. GRIMMATIK is reasonably simplifying complex linguistic theories in order to offer to students, who already possess a certain degree of German language proficiency and grammar competence, a method to generate their own findings of structural grammar rules. Then something magical happens, the students are ultimately learning German grammar while they are reading and analyzing the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zinggeler, Margrit V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION

1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND MODERN TECHNONOLOGY

2 REVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS
2.1 Glossary
2.2 Learning the Parts of Speech with a Focus on the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales
2.2.1 Nouns
2.2.2 Definite Articles Found in Titles
2.2.3 Pronouns
2.2.4 Adjectives
2.2.5 Verbs
2.2.6 Adverbs
2.2.7 Prepositions
2.2.8 Conjunctions
2.2.9 Numerals
2.2.10 Interjections and Particles
2.2.11 Illustrated Summary
2.3 Sentences, Phrases and Clauses based on the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales
2.3.1 The Subject
2.3.2 The Predicate
2.3.3 The Object Phrase
2.3.4 Verbal Modifiers
2.3.5 Attributes
2.3.6 Prepositional Phrases
2.3.7 Infinitive Phrases
2.3.8 Word Order and Phrase Sequence
2.3.9 Extended Clauses
2.4 Direct Speech and Indirect Speech in the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales
2.4.1 Imperatives
2.4.2 Interrogatives
2.5 Idiomatic Expressions

3 GRAMMATICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF FAIRY TALES
3.1 Der goldene Schlüssel (KHM 200)
3.1.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.1.2 Grimm Corpus Search
3.1.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.1.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.1.5 Writing Exercise
3.2 Der alte Großvater und sein Enkel (KHM 78)
3.2.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.2.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.2.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.2.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.2.5 Writing Exercise
3.3 Die Sterntaler (KHM 153)
3.3.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.3.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.3.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.3.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.3.5 Writing Exercise
3.4 Der süße Brei (KHM 103)
3.4.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.4.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.4.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.4.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.4.5 Writing Exercise
3.5 Das Hirtenbüblein (KHM 152)
3.5.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.5.1 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.5.2 Segmentation of Sentences
3.5.3 Discussion and Interpretation
3.5.4 Writing Exercise
3.6. Das Totenhemdlein (KHM 109)
3.6.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.6.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.6.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.6.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.6.5 Writing Exercise
3.7 Frau Holle (KHM 24)
3.7.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.7.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.7.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.7.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.7.5 Writing Exercise
3.8 Aschenputtel (KHM 21)
3.8.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.8.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.8.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.8.4 Discussion and Interpretation 189 3.8.5 Writing Exercise
3.9 Rumpelstilzchen (KHM 55)
3.9.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.9.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search 198 3.9.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.9.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.9.5 Writing Exercise
3.10 Dornröschen (KHM 50)
3.10.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.10.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.10.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.10.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.10.5 Writing Exercise
3.11 Rapunzel (KHM 12)
3.11.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.11.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.11.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.11.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.11.5 Writing Exercise
3.12 Hänsel und Gretel (KHM 15)
3.12.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.12.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.12.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.12.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.12.5 Writing Exercise
3.13 Rotkäppchen (KHM 26)
3.13.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.13.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Search
3.13.3 Segmentation of Sentences
3.13.4 Discussion and Interpretation
3.13.5 Writing Exercise
3.14. Sneewittchen (KHM 53)
3.14.1 Collection of Grammatical Data and Vocabulary
3.14.2 Direct Speech and Grimm Corpus Searc

Über Autor(innen)

Margrit V. Zinggeler is an Associate Professor of German at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She has published several articles and presented papers on the methodology of GRIMMATIK.