Wakjira Debela, Bedilu (PhD)Araya Keleta, Bahire2021-02-012023-11-082021-02-012023-11-082020-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/24901The purpose of this study was to document Gura and describe its morphology and syntax language oriented. Gura is classified under the outer south Ethio-semitics together with CWG; the comprehensive sets of genres and registers of Gura are documented by using language technology toots ELAN and FLEX. The study used descriptive field method for gathering data from the selected sites (Gura Megnase) in focus. Gura has seven vowels and thirty-seven consonants, and it has unique morphophonemic features. Sequences of consonants are not permitted word-initially, and even cluster of three consonants are not allowed word-medial and word-final positions; if there is, the epenthetic vowel /ɨ/ is inserted. In Gura, when two vowels appear in subsequence series either of the first one of these vowels is elided. In Gura, nouns are both simple and complex in form; the simple noun forms are formed by the root-and-pattern morphological system whereas the complex forms are resulted from compounding and derivational morphological operations. Nouns are also inflected for number, gender, definiteness and case. Personal pronouns are described by independent words that encode gender, number, case and person. Besides, adjectives are morphologically simple and complex that are inflected for gender, number, definiteness and case. They are also derived from other word classes by affixation. Gura verbs are simple and complex in form; the simple canonical verbs are classified as verb types A, B, C, and D which are characterized by morphophonemic and vowel quality in the aspectual verb conjugations. In Gura, complex verb forms like passive causative, verbal noun, and verbal reduplication stems are derived by affixes. Gura verbs are also inflected for negation by affixes in the perfective, imperfective and jussive verb stems, and they are in concord with the subject, object and applicative affixes. The Gura phrase structure is final-headed, and the variety has canonically SOV word order. Considering their internal structure, main clauses have verbal and nonverbal predicate forms. Besides, dependent and independent clauses are syntactically juxtaposed together, and subordinate clauses are constructed by affixes that are attached to independent clauses. Gura main clauses denote interrogative, declarative, imperative and explanatory sentence moods.en-USlanguage oriented. Gura is classified under the outer south Ethio-semitics together with CWGThesis