Modul 7: Kann-Beschreibungen

After this module, you can...

• Recognise formulaic language and stop trying to parse it word by word
• Follow a folk text whose grammar is not the standard's
• Hear when a modern speaker or writer is quoting the tradition
• Use a proverb correctly, or decide not to
• Read repetition as structure rather than as padding
• Say what a formula does without claiming to know where it came from