Konjunktionalgefüge: zwischen Sprachforschung und Sprachunterricht

The primary and secondary categories are also considered in pedagogic grammars as prototypical categories: “peripheral” phenomena such as conjunctive, prepositional and adverbial phrases are therefore part of “conjunction”, “preposition” and “adverb” categories. Focusing on the syntactic behaviour of the conjunctive phrases mit der Folge, dass… and mit dem Zweck + Inf., this paper has two principal aims: a) to show that conjunctive phrases cannot be considered as peripheral phenomena within the prototypical “conjunction” category, because they do not constitute fixed expressions and the predicative noun occurs as second grade operator in sentences subject to an elevated number of transformations; b) to provide more adequate instruments for the teaching and learning of German grammar at university level.