Aspects of Awing Grammar and Information

Title
	Imprint
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of glosses
Notational conventions
Introduction
	Overview
		Why aspect of Awing grammar?
		Why Information Structure (IS)?
			The human language
			Where does IS fit in?
	Organisation of the work
	State of research
	The data
	The language and the people
	Linguistic classification
	Phonology
The nominal system
	Introduction
	Derivational morphology
		Deverbals
			The a- prefix
			The nə- prefix
			The nə-…-nə´ circumfix
			The N-prefix
			The tə´-…-nə´ circumfix
			Nouns form with the a-, ə- and N- prefixes
			Deverbal via tonal modification
	Other derivational processes
		Nouns derived from adjectives
		Compounding
		Augmentative and diminutive prefixes
		Reduplication
		Loan words
	The pronominal system
		Absolute human pronouns
		Coordinating human pronouns
		Absolute nonhuman pronouns
		Possessive pronouns and determiners
		Towards the Awing noun phrase head-directionality
			The noun and the associative noun phrase with specific modifiers
			Combining different nominal modifiers
		Summary
Verb morphology and clause structure
	Introduction
	The infinitive verb
	Subject markers
	Tense
		A complex tense clause
	Aspect
		Progressive: /tə´/
		Habitual: /za´/
		Iterative: /pł´/
	Mood
		The imperative mood
		The subjunctive mood
		The potential (POT) mood /təmbɔ’/
		The certainty (CERT) mood /pe´/
	The N-Prefix
		Exceptions with the N-prefixation
	Verbal extensions
		The causative (CAUS) suffix: -kə
		The spontaneous (SPONT) suffix: -kə
		The reciprocal (REC) suffix: -nə
		The persuasive (PERS) suffix: -nə
		The reversal (REV) suffix: -kə
		The distributive (DIST) suffix: -tə
		The diminutive (DIM) suffix: -tə
		The frequent (FREQ) suffix: -tə
	Negation
		Other negative forms
		Negative polarity items
	Adverbial phrases
	Summary
Truncation
	Introduction
		Introducing the phenomenon
	Truncation in Awing
	Nominal truncation
	Verbal Truncation
		The conspiracy between the verb and the direct object
		Truncation as a focus alignment mechanism
			Truncation in Awing and the ‘disjoint conjoint’ phenomenon
		Truncation as a means to form questions
			Using intonation and/or truncation to form interrogatives
	Summary
The LE morpheme
	Introduction
	The copular clause in Awing
		Morpho-syntactic differences between LE and pə in copular clauses
		The LE morpheme and the post-copular ‘focus’
	The topic-focus partitioned construction
		A broader picture on the topic-focus partition
	The syntax of copular clauses and the topic-focus partitioned constructions
	Summary
Wh-constructions
	Introduction
	Syntactic properties of wh-constructions
		General properties of non-subject wh-questions
			Non-subject wh-fronting asymmetry in Awing
		Special properties of subject wh-questions
		Coordinating wh-phrases
		Embedding wh-phrases
		Non-interrogative use of wh-phrases?
		Multiple wh-questions
		Negating content questions
		Summarizing the morpho-syntactic properties of wh-constructions
	The semantic component of the LE morpheme with wh-phrases
		The difference between LE and ‘only’
		LE with wh-phrases
	Why the SM is phonetically null with in-situ wh-subject in Awing
	Engaging the syntax of wh-constructions in Awing
		A note on the position of the LE morpheme
		Revisiting the SM and the subject position in Awing
		Consequences of LE’s fixed position in multiple wh-question
	The syntax of ex-situ wh-phrases
		Syntactic constraints targeting movement dependencies
		Semantic effects targeting movement dependencies
		Phonological and prosodic effects targeting movement dependencies
	Summary
Focalization
	Introduction
	New information focus; the unmarked focus
	Morphological focus ‘marking’; the data
	Focus interpretation with the LE morpheme
		‘Contrast’
			Corrective focus
			Alternative questions; selective focus
		Exhaustivity
			Exhaustivity is incompatible with indefinite and universal NPs/quantifiers
			Additional exhaustivity diagnostics
	Verb focus
		Verb focus and negation; a potential problem
		How negative clauses differ from affirmation clauses in Awing
			Verb object orders in negative and affirmative clauses
			Engaging the syntax of negation in Awing
		Verb focus; another perspective
		The syntax of verb focus and negation
	Summary
Conclusion
	Summary
	Outlook
		Focus operators in Fe´fe´
		Focus operators in Ghɔma´la´´
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