@book{DuahFominyamKloseetal.2015, author = {Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Fominyam, Henry Z. and Klose, Claudius and Pfeil, Simone and Genzel, Susanne and K{\"u}gler, Frank and Valle, Daniel}, title = {Mood, Exhaustivity \& Focus Marking in non-European Languages}, editor = {Grubic, Mira and Bildhauer, Felix}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-81200}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2015}, abstract = {This is the 19th — and final — issue of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the Collaborative Research Center 632. In this issue, we present cross-linguistic work on Mood, Exhaustivity, and Focus Marking, on African languages and American languages.}, language = {en} } @article{Fominyam2015, author = {Fominyam, Henry Z.}, title = {The Syntax of Focus and Interrogation in Awing}, series = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632}, journal = {Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632}, number = {19}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1614-4708}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83755}, pages = {29 -- 62}, year = {2015}, abstract = {According to Aikhenvald (2007:5), descriptive linguistics or linguistic fieldwork "ideally involves observing the language as it is used, becoming a member of the community, and often being adopted into the kinship system". Descriptive linguistics therefore differs from theoretical linguistics in that while the former seeks to describe natural languages as they are used, the latter, other than describing, attempts to give explanations on how or why language phenomena behave in certain ways. Thus, I will abstract away from any preconceived ideas on how sentences ought to be in Awing and take the linguist/reader through focus and interrogative constructions to get a feeling of how the Awing people interact verbally.}, language = {en} }