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the joy of Danish grammar...: This is an excellent (and probably only) English-language guide to thorough Danish grammar. Very refined grammatical points are exemplified and explained in terms that even a non-linguist can understand. This thick book is neatly organized, the material is logically presented, and is hip with contemporary language and usage.
Incredibly important book for serious students of Danish: If you want to understand the language of Danish -- and Danes are sticklers for grammar, both Danish and English -- then you must have this book or a Danish nun as a teacher. The cross-cultural equivalent of Warriner's English; everything but sentence diagramming. Not quite Strunk & White's Elements of Style, but I need its 600-plus pages. The terminology is "rather" British (see "copulative conjunctions"), yet it even instructs how to properly form colloquial sentences -- "so" colloquial that a Danish friend to whom I had written thought I must have made a mistake because the sentence structure I had used, as a beginner, seemed to arcanely correct. In short, this book is outwardly dull but extremely useful.
| Author: | Robin Allan | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 439.8182421 | | EAN: | 9780415082068 | | Edition: | 1 | | ISBN: | 0415082064 | | Number Of Pages: | 628 | | Publication Date: | 1995-03-29 |
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