A complete reference guide to modern Danish, concentrating on the real patterns in use today. This Grammar will be the standard reference for years to come for the learner and user of Danish, irrespective of level.
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Incredibly important book for serious students of Danish,
By ig@sprynet.com (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Comprehensive Grammars) (English and Danish Edition) (Paperback)
If you want to understand the language of Danish -- and Danes are sticklers for grammar, both Danish and English -- then you must have this book or a Danish nun as a teacher. The cross-cultural equivalent of Warriner's English; everything but sentence diagramming. Not quite Strunk & White's Elements of Style, but I need its 600-plus pages. The terminology is "rather" British (see "copulative conjunctions"), yet it even instructs how to properly form colloquial sentences -- "so" colloquial that a Danish friend to whom I had written thought I must have made a mistake because the sentence structure I had used, as a beginner, seemed to arcanely correct. In short, this book is outwardly dull but extremely useful.
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the joy of Danish grammar...,
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This review is from: Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Comprehensive Grammars) (English and Danish Edition) (Paperback)
This is an excellent (and probably only) English-language guide to thorough Danish grammar. Very refined grammatical points are exemplified and explained in terms that even a non-linguist can understand. This thick book is neatly organized, the material is logically presented, and is hip with contemporary language and usage.
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It would be difficult to imagine a more complete work on descriptive, Danish grammar, or any grammar, for that matter. You name it, it's covered here: orthography, sentence structure, verbs, adjectives, the list is very long(in fact, the very well organized index is 23 pages). Some readers have expressed the opinion that this book is very "British" but it is not. It is just very precise. For example, the terms copulatives(copulative conjuntions) and disjunctives(disjunctive conjunctions) are terms expressing the types of conjunctions used to join items and those used to separate them(as in the English "and" and "or"). Many readers might not be accustomed to such terminology, but the book actually does not assume that the reader is. It explains these terms and often makes comparisons to English. This is not a book that a beginner should use to learn Danish all by itself. There are no reading lessons , for example, nor is it organized for tutorial presentation. It is a reference, but one that is very usable by students and speakers of all levels. There is also a similar volume in this series on Swedish grammar. The binding is also quite nice. It is sewn in signature.
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word formation, neuter plural, sixth form college, blive passive, kunne tysk, vasket sig, front article den, plural indefinite forms, gradation series, traditional comma, conjunctional adverbs, subordinate clause positions, plural definite forms, clausal adverbials, main clause word order, alternative plural forms, composite tenses, indigenous nouns, common gender nouns, subordinate clause word order, var syg, other subordinators, definite declension, assertive meaning, new comma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Comprehensive Grammar, Infinitive Present Past Past Meaning, Basic Comparative Superlative, Old Danish, Meaning Examples, Some Danish, Infinitive Past Past Meaning, Low German, The Jensens, Hans Christian Andersen, Singular Plural Plural, Suffix Deriving, Second World War, Danish Parliament New!
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word formation, neuter plural, sixth form college, blive passive, kunne tysk, vasket sig, front article den, plural indefinite forms, gradation series, traditional comma, conjunctional adverbs, subordinate clause positions, plural definite forms, clausal adverbials, main clause word order, alternative plural forms, composite tenses, indigenous nouns, common gender nouns, subordinate clause word order, var syg, other subordinators, definite declension, assertive meaning, new comma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Comprehensive Grammar, Infinitive Present Past Past Meaning, Basic Comparative Superlative, Old Danish, Meaning Examples, Some Danish, Infinitive Past Past Meaning, Low German, The Jensens, Hans Christian Andersen, Singular Plural Plural, Suffix Deriving, Second World War, Danish Parliament New!
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- Hans Christian Andersen (Obras selectas series) by Hans Christian Andersen on page 466, page 571, and page 586
- A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk in Back Matter
- Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program (Generative Syntax) by Samuel Epstein on page 162
- Person (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Anna Siewierska in Back Matter
- The Germanic Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys) by Wayne Harbert in Back Matter
- Swedish: An Essential Grammar (Essential Grammars) by Ian Hinchliffe in Front Matter
- Linguistics and the Language of Translation (Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Kirsten Malmkjaer in Back Matter
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