The study examines relative clauses in spoken German from an extensive empirical corpus of informal and formal interactions. It provides a comprehensive grammatical analysis of one of the central structural features of German, using consistent oral language data. The analysis of the corpus is marked by its combined use of quantitative and qualitative data, and takes account of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic relationships.

Karin Birkner, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.