Documentation and Description of Chara Verb Morphology
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2011-07
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Addis Ababa Universiy
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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 language,
objectives of the study, methodology of the study, review of the previous works
and sketch grammar on the verb morphology of the Chara language and
sample words and sentences of the language. The basic issues discussed under
the verb morphology of Chara language comprise: verb inflections and
derivations of the language . Under verb inflection, some of the verb inflections
like: tense, number, gender, negation, mood and person were treated by giving
example data under each grammatical categories. After discussing the above
grammatical categories under the verb inflection of the language, it was
concluded that, the verbs of the Chara language are inflected for tense,
number , gender, negation , mood and person. Under the verb derivations of the
language, different word classes were discussed; these are: verbal nouns, verbs
and adjectives. In doing so the analysis was supported by citing sample
(example data) of the language under study. The discussion under verb
derivation of the language revealed that the verbs of the Chara language are
derived from verbal nouns, adjectives and from the infinitive form of the verb
through stem-modification and suffIxation processes.
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Chara Verb Morphology