Oroho Substantives: Some Aspects Of Their Morphology And Syntax
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1981-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
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.
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Oroho Substantives