Download or read book Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German written by Hans C. Boas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic Linguistics over the past half century.