Linguistik und Deutsch als Fremdsprache

This collection, which commemorates the beginnings of the discipline 'German as a Foreign Language' and celebrates the achievements of one its key figures, assembles 21 contributions from scholars from Germany and elsewhere working in this field. The subjects of their articles are all bound up, to a greater or lesser degree, with the central concerns in the writings of Gerhard Helbig: (learner) grammar; valency, distribution, parts of speech and their classification; word-formation; (learner) lexicography/idiomatics; specific features of text varieties; phonetics/phonology; orthography; language acquisition.