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2020 - Volume 3 - Number 1

Syntactic Structure of Awgni Sentences Based on Form

Berhanu Asaye Agajie * berhanuas@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-9780-574X
Injibara College of Teacher Education, Department of Language, ETHIOPIA

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2020, 3 (1), 13-28 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0301.020013a
Received: 25 April 2020 ▪ Accepted: 8 July 2020 ▪ Published Online: 20 July 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
The study attempted to assess systematic examination of syntactic representations found in structural based Awgni sentence. Through purposive sampling, seventeen written and oral texts were selected. Seven informants (three females and four males) were interviewed to crosscheck these data. Results indicated that sentences in terms of their forms, forming, constituents’ combination, or causal relationship, the number and types of clause they contain were different. Each sentence structure shares syntactic representations (Ss) that include Noun Phrases (NPs), Verb Phrases (VPs), Prepositional phrases (PPs), Adverbial Phrases (ADVPs), and Adjectival Phrases (APs). Sentences have both linear sequences of words; a hierarchical structure with phrases nested in phrases and resulted in dominance and precedence relationships. Finally, the study recommended a further research on some basic properties of Awgni syntax, grammatical functions, and semantic roles.

KEY WORDS: Awgni, representation, sentence, structure, syntactic.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Berhanu Asaye Agajie, Injibara College of Teacher Education, Department of Language, postal address 44 Injibara, ETHIOPIA. E-mail: berhanuas@gmail.com.

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