The degree dissertation thesis elaborated the uses of the pronoun es in the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales. The different functions of the pronoun es are examined using four different grammars. The thesis explains terms such as correlate, placeholder, argument, expletive etc.
For the research part I analysed the use of the pronoun es in the fairy tale Das Mädchen ohne Hände and the analysis is delivered using the grammar of Pittner/Bermann (2015).
The analysis has shown that the Brothers Grimm used the function correlate es in the narrower sense lesser than the other three functions.
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