The main aim of this course is to introduce students to German linguistics. This course covers different fields of linguistics to  introduce students to German linguistics and provides an introduction to linguistic concepts and topics which help us to understand the structure and use of the German language. The main focus of this course will be on the word order properties and the acquisition of the foundations of German linguistics with respect to the case structure, agreement, the positions of the verb in German, the concept of phrase structre(s), the distribution of reflexives and pronouns and how German words and sentences are formed the focus here being on variation in word order