ON THE SPECIFICS OF MINOR SENTENCE MEMBERS’ WORD ORDER IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Word order is a mutual arrangement of sentence members, which has syntactic, semantic and stylistic meaning. Word order is multifunctional and is one of the most important means of sentence and speech structure, building grammatical and semantic relations, conveying target, communicative and emotional messages. The German language is characterized by a fixed word order in a sentence. It concerns first of all the main members of the sentence: the subject and the predicate. As for minor sentence members, the rules of their arrangement in a German sentence are rather recommendatory. However, knowledge and observance of these rules is necessary, because it contributes to the fact that the speech of German language learners begins to sound more natural, becomes closer to the speech of native German speakers. The article considers the specifics of the minor sentence members’ word order in the structure of the German sentence.