Zellig S. Harris distinguishes three situations in the ordering of morphemes relative to each other: ‘restricted’, ‘contrasting’, and ‘descriptively equivalent order’. Candidates for all three types are found in Modern German. It is the purpose of this paper to examine some problems of order in German within the framework of a transformational grammar.
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