Questionnaire on manner, quality, degree and quantity demonstratives in Ethiopian languages

This questionnaire is meant to help linguists working on Ethiopian languages to investigate the morphology, syntax, use and origin (history) of the little investigated manner, quality, degree and quantity (MQDQ) demonstratives and to analyse the formal and functional links among these demonstratives and between them and other demonstrative types in the language. The questions are organized in five sections: (1) Background on the demonstrative system and the expression of similarity and equality, (2) Manner demonstratives, (3) Quality demonstratives, (4) Degree demonstratives and (5) Quantity demonstratives. Apart from analytical questions, the question also contains example sentences in English, Kambaata (Cushitic) and Amharic (Semitic). This questionnaire has been developped for the one-day workshop on MQDQ-demonstratives (27/09/2019, organised by Ronny Meyer & Yvonne Treis) at the Seminar of the NORHED-Project "Linguistic Capacity Building - Tools for the inclusive development of Ethiopia" in Langesund, Norway, 23-27 September 2019.