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Dictionary of language and linguistics 142feel overworked.’ The verbal brace construction divides verb-second sentences into threepositional fields (termed Vorfeld, ‘prefield’ or ‘front field,’ Mittelfeld ‘inner field’ andNachfeld ‘final field,’ ‘post-field,’ or ‘end field’); the first stretches from the beginning ofthe sentence to the finite verb, the second from the finite verb to the closing element ofthe brace; the third only exists in sentences with exbraciation, i.e. if some part of thesentence is placed after the brace-closing element: Er schickte mich ins Haus hinein zuseinem Vater ‘He sent me into the house to his father.’ (Verb-initial sentences lack aprefield.) (b) The brace construction in a verb-final (usually subordinate) clause is formedby the clause-initiating elements (conjunctions etc.) and the verbal parts:…, weil erdurstig war ‘…because he was thirsty.’ (c) The nominal brace construction is created bythe distance position of article or preposition and head noun: ein nicht mehr zuüberbietendes groβartiges Ereignis ‘a wonderful event which cannot be surpassed.’ReferencesAdmoni, W. 1982. Der deutsche Sprachbau, 4th edn. Munich.Kromann, H.P. 1974. Satz, Satzklammer und Ausklammerung. Kopenhagener Beiträge zurGermanistischen Linguistik 4. 7–82.Presch, G. 1974. Die Satzklammer im Deutschen: syntaktische Beschreibung,Dekodierungsstrategien. Konstanz.Ronneberger-Sibold, E. 1993. Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in Germanmorphosyntax. In J.Van Marle (ed.), Historical linguistics 1991: papers from the tenthinternational conference on historical linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia. 295–314.Thurmair, M. 1991. Warten auf das Verb. Die Gedächtnisrelevanz der Verbklammer im Deutschen.Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 17. 174–202.Vennemann, T. 1983. Verb second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic. In J.Fisiak(ed.), Historical syntax. The Hague. 627–36.constraint, German, transformational grammar, word orderbrachylogy [Grk brachýs ‘short’, lógos‘word’] (also brachylogia)An intentional omission of essential thoughts. In its broadest sense, the term forexpressing something in the most concise way possible: The corps goeth before, wefollow after, we come to the grave, she is put into the fire, a lamentation is made(Peacham).