The Structure Of German (Oxford Linguistics)

The Structure of German (Oxford Linguistics)

The Structure of German is a description of the major features of German according to the principles of modern linguistics. This second edition represents full updates of aspects of German phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.Review"Beautifully produced and written, and laudably clear in what it sets out to do ... the author is throughout careful to ensure that brevity does not lead to obscurity; he selects judiciously and writes luminously ... both erudite and stimulating"About the AuthorAnthony Fox studied modern languages and phonetics at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the intonation of German and English. He taught linguistics at the University of Leeds for over thirty years and was Head of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics for fourteen years until his semi-retirement in 2003. He is the author of German Intonation. An Outline (1984), The Structure of German (1990), Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Method (1995), and Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure (2000), all published by OUP.