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Title A typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic languages
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/14432
Date 2009
Author(s) Fufa Teso, Tolemariam
Abstract This work discusses the typology of the middle, the causative and the passive marking systems of Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic languages. The discussion of these verbal derivations started from detail description of the Causative derivation of the representative languages: Oromo, Amharic and Shakkinoono representing Cushitic, Semitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia respectively. Oromo, Amharic and Shakkinoono have their own causative markings, causative structures and causative meanings. The causative discussion of the representative languages is followed by the causative discussion of Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic languages where variations and similarities of the causative verb derivations, argument structures and meanings of the causatives are shown. The second half of the work deals with the middle and the passive verbal derivations. The middle and the passive verbal derivation of Oromo are given different chapters since Oromo has separate middle and passive markings. But, in Amharic the middle and the passive are treated in one chapter since the middle marking is the same as the passive marking. In fact in this language there are ambiguous structures which could be treated either as a passive or as a middle. Similarly, in Shakkinoono the discussion of the passive and the middle verbal derivations are not given a separate chapters because the passive marking is often used as a middle marking. Finally, concluding chapters of the middle and the passive are given.
Subject(s) Agent; Causative; Form; Meaning; Middle; Morpheme; Passive; Patient; Similarity; Typology; Variation
Language en
Publisher LOT, Utrecht
Type of publication Doctoral thesis
Format application/pdf; application/pdf
Repository Leiden - Africanists at University of Leiden
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