About the "general case" of modern German

Panfilova Valentina Mikhailovna, Bubekova Larisa Borisovna

In the article, the author examines the psycholinguistic and linguistic problems of using the case system of the modern German language. Cases today are the main carriers of morphological meanings, which in turn form a number of oppositions of a paradigmatic nature. Also, cases act as regulators of syntactic relations, which demonstrate the relationship of the noun and other members of the sentence. The work examines the category of case, its functional features and characteristics, and also interprets the nominative case in the system of the modern German language. As a result of the research carried out on the basis of the analyzed factors, the author comes to the conclusion that a reasonable solution is to single out the general case as a category with zero marking.

Keywords:German, general case, language system, usus