Hammer's German Grammar and Usage: (Routledge Reference Grammars)

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today. In a revised layout to improve ease of consultation, this new edition includes: concise descriptions of the main grammatical phenomena of German and their use completely reorganized tables of grammatical features examples of grammar taken from contemporary German, helping you to understand the underlying grammatical principles more quickly invaluable guidance on pronunciation and word stress discussion of new words from English roots, helping you to communicate in German as Germans do today clarification on current spellings of German with full detail on the most recent revisions to the rules list of useful internet resources for students, teachers and all learners of German Praised for its lucid explanations, this new edition explains and clearly distinguishes formal and informal spoken and written usage. Hammer’s German Grammar offers you a combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage that you will find invaluable, whether a student or a teacher, at intermediate or advanced level.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of tables Abbreviations and points for the user Preface to the seventh edition Acknowledgements The phonetic alphabet 1 Nouns 1.1 Noun gender 1.2 Noun plurals 1.3 The declension of nouns to show case 2 Case 2.1 The nominative case 2.2 The accusative case 2.3 The genitive case 2.4 Genitive case or von? 2.5 The dative case 2.6 Apposition 2.7 Measurement phrases: genitive, von or apposition? 3 Personal pronouns 3.1 The forms of the personal pronouns 3.2 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns 3.3 Pronouns of address: du, ihr and Sie 3.4 Third person pronouns 3.5 The prepositional adverb 3.6 The pronoun es 4 The articles 4.1 The declension of the articles 4.2 The definite article with abstract and similar nouns 4.3 The use of articles in generalizations 4.4 Articles with geographical and other proper names 4.5 The use of articles in time expressions 4.6 Definite article or possessive? 4.7 Other uses of the definite article 4.8 The ‘zero article’ 4.9 Article use with phrasal verbs 4.10 Article use with prepositions 5 Other determiners and pronouns 5.1 Demonstratives 5.2 Possessives 5.3 Interrogatives 5.4 Relative pronouns 5.5 Indefinites, quantifiers and other determiners and pronouns 6 Adjectives 6.1 Declension and use of adjectives 6.2 Adjectives used as nouns 6.3 Cases with adjectives 6.4 Adjectives with prepositions 6.5 Comparison of adjectives 7 Adverbs 7.1 Adverbs of place 7.2 Adverbs of direction: hin and her 7.3 Adverbs of time 7.4 Adverbs of manner, viewpoint, attitude and reason 7.5 Adverbs of degree 7.6 Interrogative adverbs 7.7 Comparison of adverbs 8 Numerals 8.1 Cardinal numbers 8.2 Ordinal numbers 8.3 Fractions and decimals 8.4 Other numerical usages 8.5 Times and dates 8.6 Addresses 9 Modal particles 9.1 German modal particles 10 Verbs: conjugation 10.1 Verb conjugation 10.2 The simple tenses, the non-finite forms and the imperative 10.3 The compound tenses 10.4 The werden-passive and the sein-passive 10.5 The subjunctive 10.6 Forms of strong and irregular verbs 11 The infinitive and the participles 11.1 Forms of the infinitive 11.2 The infinitive with zu 11.3 The infinitive without zu 11.4 Infinitives used as nouns 11.5 The present and past participles 11.6 English constructions with the ‘-ing’ form 12 The tenses 12.1 The present tense 12.2 The past and perfect tenses 12.3 The future and future perfect tenses 12.4 The pluperfect tense 12.5 German equivalents for the English progressive tenses 13 The passive 13.1 The werden-passive 13.2 The sein-passive 13.3 von and durch with the passive 13.4 Other passive constructions 14 Mood: the imperative and the subjunctive 14.1 Commands and the imperative 14.2 The subjunctive: forms and uses 14.3 Conditional sentences 14.4 Indirect speech 14.5 Other uses of the subjunctive 15 The modal auxiliaries 15.1 The modal auxiliaries: form and syntax 15.2 dürfen 15.3 können 15.4 mögen 15.5 müssen 15.6 sollen 15.7 wollen 16 Verbs: valency 16.1 Valency, complements and sentence patterns 16.2 The subject 16.3 The accusative object 16.4 The dative object 16.5 Prepositional objects 16.6 Predicate complements 16.7 Genitive objects 16.8 Locative complements 17 Conjunctions and subordination 17.1 Coordinating conjunctions 17.2 Noun clauses 17.3 Conjunctions of time 17.4 Causal conjunctions 17.5 Conjunctions of purpose and result 17.6 Concessive conjunctions 17.7 Conjunctions of manner and degree 18 Prepositions 18.1 Prepositions governing the accusative case 18.2 Prepositions governing the dative case 18.3 Prepositions governing the accusative or the dative case 18.4 Prepositions governing the genitive case 18.5 German equivalents for English ‘to’ 19 Word order 19.1 Clause structure and the position of the verb 19.2 Initial position in main clause statements 19.3 The order of other elements in the sentence 19.4 The order of noun and pronoun subject and objects 19.5 The place and order of adverbials 19.6 The position of nicht 19.7 The position of verb complements 19.8 Elements following the final verbal bracket: the Nachfeld 20 Word formation 20.1 Methods of word formation 20.2 The formation of nouns 20.3 The formation of adjectives 20.4 Verb formation: general 20.5 Inseparable verb prefixes 20.6 Separable verb prefixes 20.7 Variable verb prefixes 20.8 Verb formation by means other than prefixes 21 Spelling, pronunciation and punctuation 21.1 Spelling and pronunciation 21.2 Capital letters 21.3 One word or two? 21.4 Other points of spelling 21.5 Commas 21.6 Other punctuation marks List of sources Bibliography and references Glossary Index

About the Author :
Martin Durrell is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Manchester, UK.