Browsing by Author "Yimam, Baye"

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    Documentation and Description of Code Switching in Oromiffa and Harari Language
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-05) Ali, Nadia; Yimam, Baye
    In a multi lingual community like Ethiopia, people often switch from one language to another in their daily conversations and code-switching often reflects the social or cultural identities of the speakers. The switch to a particular language in the bilingual dialogue can also be employed as an effective medium to indication ethnic identity. The aim of this paper is concerned to document and to give description of code-switching in Oromo and Harari speech community. This study has deployed the sociolinguistic approach, as Gumperz, (1982) states which raise the question why it is practiced and the driving force towards code switching at the very beginning. Focus group discussion and Semi structured interview was also used as the main instruments of the research data collection. Digital tape recorders were also the instruments used for audio data collection. iv Since Dire Dawa is one of the cities of Ethiopia, a place where from different nations and nationalities living in it, which makes it a multilingual city, code switching is a widespread phenomenon among speakers of different indigenous languages. As a result, it is very common to hear the alternation of codes, especially from Oromo to Harari language. In this paper, some of the major sociolinguistic issues in Oromo-Harari code-switching are raised and discussed
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    Oroho Substantives: Some Aspects Of Their Morphology And Syntax
    (Addis Ababa University, 1981-05) Yimam, Baye; Beyene, Taddensse (PhD)
    This study is an attempt made to describe Oromo NOUNS and ADJECTIVES. The purpose of the study is to see if NOUNS and ADJEe- TIVES in Oromo can be treated as constituents of just one class instead of the traditional two. To this end, the formal and distributional characteristics of NOUNS and ADJECTIVES have been examined in s i x chapters.In chapter one, reviews of previous works, and purposes and limitations of the study have been made. In the second and third chapters, the inflect ional and derivational affixes of Oromo NOUNS and ADJECTIVES have been examined and compared" The inflectional affi:;~es for such grammatical categories as number t gender; and case have been examined and explained. Regarding their derivations the roots from which NOUNS and ADJECTIVES may be derived and the affixes that derive them have been identi fied. Chapter five deals with some processes of nominalization and adjectivizationso Here, attempts have been made to describe th-e proceSDeD of compounding and re!ativization. In chapter five, the syntactic positions and functions of NOUNS and ADJECTIVES along with those of p ronouns , demonstratives, and numerals have been considered" Chapter six summarizes the discussion and suggests as a possible conclusion that NOUNS and ADJECTIVES may be considered as constituents of the class of substantives on the basis of their morphological similarity.