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Item The Morphology of Saho(Addis Ababa University, 2009-01) Kidane, Tewodros; Weldemariam, Hirut (PhD)The general objective of this study is to describe the morphology of Saho language with particular emphasis on the Irob dialect. This general objective includes the following specific objectives. i) Identifying the inflectional morphology of the language ii) Identifying the derivational morphology of the language The study describes the inflectional categories of Saho nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs. Nouns are inflected for number and case whereas gender and definiteness are basically indicated via independent words. Some pronouns of the language are derivatives and can inflect for different grammatical categories. Gender in adjectives is marked through vowel lengthening while number is marked by adding different affixes. Adjectives always precede the nouns they modify and should agree in number and gender with the head nouns. Based on the subject agreement affixes they take, Saho verbs are classified in to two classes. Verbs in Saho are inflected for the categories aspect, mood, number and person, whereas tense is marked by the auxiliary verb -in- . This verb has the same verb conjugation as stems of class II. The perfectible form -ine indicates the past tense and its imperfection form -ane indicates the non past tense. In Noncriminals are basically derived from adjectives, verbs and other nouns as an abstract, attentive, and infinitive. In addition to nouns verbs are also derived as causative, passive, reciprocal and auto benefactive by adding different affixes.