TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fominyam, Henry Z.
T1  - The Syntax of Focus and Interrogation in Awing
BT  - a Descriptive Approach
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - 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.
KW  - Awing
KW  - focus realization
KW  - question formation
KW  - descriptive grammar
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83755
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 19
SP  - 29
EP  - 62
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -