The presented study “On the Use of German Articles in Nominal and Prepositional Groups” is devided into two parts. The first part starts with a description of German articles with their morphosyntactic characteristics. The most attention is paid to the functions of the articles in German language. The Use of the articles is presented in groups in dependence to their functions - the determination, the grammatical, stylistic and communicative function.
In the practical part follows a statistical analysis of the interaction of the Determination, stylistic and communicative function by the use of articles in nominal and prepositional groups with abstract nouns Explosion, Überfall and Anschlag.
The results of this analysis show relations between the informational structure of a phrase and the neutralisation of the identification of an appositional attribute and further also the effects of the stylistic function in communicative important role in the phrase.