Die Grammatik des Agrammatismus: Eine linguistische Untersuchung zu Wortstellung und Flexion bei Broca-Aphasie

Agrammatism is a linguistic impairment occasioned by brain damage. It affects word order and inflection. This monograph is an empirical study of agrammatism in German based on spontaneous data and experimental findings from 11 agrammatism sufferers. Central to the investigation is the question of the components of linguistic competence affected by agrammatism. The results suggest that syntactic word-order processes are not impaired, whereas inflection competence is characterized by selection deficits with regard to regular/irregular forms. The study discusses the relevance of these deficits for linguistic theory-formation.