Grammatica del tedesco: le espressioni del fine in prospettiva contrastiva con l'italiano

This paper presents a comparative analysis of German and Italian as far as conjunctive phrases that introduce final clauses is concerned. I will show that lexicon offers a large number of conjunctive phrases expressing purposes which are overlooked in scientific and pedagogic grammars as they assume that clauses are prototypically introduced by conjunctions and not by “peripheral phenomena” like conjunctive phrases, which are simply considered fixed expressions. I will also demonstrate that conjunctive phrases do not constitute fixed expressions because their head, that is the nominal predicate, belongs to semantic classes and is present in many expressions including second order collocations. Furthermore, their head occurs as a second degree operator in sentences subject to an elevated number of transformations.