Prepositional attributes

The work contains theoretical and methodological considerations regarding grammaticography, particularly in the area of prepositions and noun valency, as well as fundamental analyses of the structural principles of prepositional attribute constructions in German. A terminology specifically tailored to the subject matter is developed, and criteria for differentiation and testing procedures against competing syntactic constructions are formulated, taking into account extensive corpus material. The internal structure of prepositional attribute constructions is thoroughly discussed at the syntactic level for all prepositions that can function as governed, and at the semantic level based on selected prepositions for a large number of governing nouns. There is a clear overlap between syntactic and semantic aspects.