Word Order and Constituent Structure in German

Erich Drach is the first linguist to present the pattern of sentence components in German more than eighty years ago. From then on, on the one hand, a simple Dahl pattern at first and on the other hand language developments, led linguists to develop this model. The pattern presented by this German linguist today has to contain complex models of German language. In this paper, in addition to introducing this template, we introduce a variety of sentences in German and the arrangement of structures in this model. We will also try to show compulsory and optional placement of structures in each of the sites specified in this template. The results of this study show that all model positions should not be occupied. The position of the verb and the sentence type is in the basis of the base or the follower in determining the position and arrangement of the structures.