THE PREDICATIVE USE OF ADJECTIVES IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE: INSIGHTS FROM THE NEWSPAPER ‘WESTDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG’ FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS

This paper providesan in-depth analysis of the syntactic function and usage of adjectives in the German language with a focus on their predicative use. For the prupose of the study,we utilized a corpus of adjectives from the newspaper 'Westdeutsche Zeitung' from 2009 to 2021. The procedure involved theanalysisof sentence examples from the electronic corpus of the archive of the written German language at the German Language Institute in Mannheim (IdS). Building upon the theoretical approaches of Helbig & Busha (1991) and Hentschel & Weydt (2013), this article presents our own analysis and approaches of the syntactic function of adjectives in the German language. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of adjectives in the German language as a corpus-based study for language learners in higher educational settings. The results of the study give some new insights and information for both teachers and students about the use of adjectives while learning German language.