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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
One of the most characteristic features of German sentence structure is the so-called ‘frame’ (Rahmen, Klammer). According to the ‘frame’ principle, complex verbal expressions in main clauses are split up in such a way that the finite portion occurs in second position (in interrogative and imperative clauses in first position), while the remainder is relegated to the end, thus enclosing most of the clause in a kind of frame.