This study is concemed with describing deixis in the Somali language. Deixis is the way referents are pointed to by means of lingui stic expression s. Accordingly, Somali deictics include: personal, spatial, temporal, ...

This is a qualitative study conducted to identify, classify, describe and document the house utensils of Enemor in an effort to document endangered elements of material culture of the Enemor people in south Ethiopia. To ...

Finally, the morphosyntax of focus and topic, which are the pragmatically marked structures, have been analyzed in the thesis. Formative and syntactic strategies have been employed to analyze the focused and topical ...

This study has introduced the design of a Hidden Markov Model based LVCSR system in a new target language based on a different source language and without the need of a large speech databases on the target language. The ...

In the rural areas of the Eastern Tigrai, when people visit the honeymooners, they often prefer to play an oral game called wəddi mən, which means 'whose son is...', and functionally, 'whose bridegroom/ bride is..., ...

For crop cultivation development in Ethiopia, recontextualizing the discourse of indigenous farming knowledge is needed. Thus, the central purpose of this thesis is, through recontextualization process, to explore the ...

This thesis deals with the documentation and description of TAM (tense, aspect and mood) in Gwama, a Koman (Nilo-Saharan) language of southwestern Ethiopia. It has two parts. In the first part, after an introductory section ...

This paper presents the study on the documentation and description of Chara verb morphology. The section under verb morphology of the Chara language consists, the background information of the Chara people, their ...