The topics addressed in this volume dedicated to the linguist and German studies scholar Peter Eisenberg are grouped under four headings. The first section devoted to phonology, syllabification and the word is followed by essays on the grammar of two central parts of speech, the noun and the verb. Section four is given over to the illumination of sentence grammar from very different vantages. All four sections encompass a wide array of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns to practical questions of school instruction, the teaching of German as a foreign language, orthography and language cultivation.

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die Flexion der Wortarten Verb, Substantiv, Adjektiv, Pronomen und Artikel. Die Konjugation des Verbs nach Numerus, Person, Tempus, Modus und Genus verbi (Aktiv und Passiv) wird ebenso erlautert wie die Unterschiede in der Formenbildung von starken und schwachen Verben, Modalverben und Hilfsverben. Die verschiedenen Deklinationsklassen des Substantivs werden in ubersichtlichen Paradigmentafeln dargestellt, die Bedingungen fur die schwache und die starke Deklination des Adjektivs werden leicht verstandlich erklart; zudem werden Paradigmentafeln fur alle Pronomenklassen (Personal-, Possessiv-, Demonstrativ-, Indefinit-, Interrogativ-, Relativpronomen) sowie fur die Artikel bereitgestellt. Zugleich werden unter Berucksichtigung der neuesten morphologischen Forschungsliteratur alternativ zu den traditionellen Flexionsparadigmen so genannte unterspezifizierte Paradigmen vorgestellt und diskutiert.