Disputas: Desalegn Workneh, Institutt for språk og kultur

"The voice system of Amharic"

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https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/fda6e5312f77469188b1de20ddbb5eff21

Prøveforelesningen starter 3. september kl. 09.00

Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:

Languages have voice systems--often known as active and passive voices. This dissertation is a study of the voice system Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. I present how the voice morphemes in Amharic behave. I have argued that Amharic has no grammatical forms for the passive, middle, unaccusative and the like voice forms which are popular in many European languages. The language has only two voice forms, pretty much similar to the ancient Greek, such as the active and the nonactive. The active voice itself appears in different forms--including the unmarked active voice, as well as marked causative forms. The nonactive comes marked with a single morpheme.

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig i Munin

Bedømmelseskomité:

dr. Mengistu Amberber, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, The university of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (førsteopponent)

dr. Michelle Sheehan, Reader in Linguistics, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England (andre opponent)

professor Gillian Ramchand, UiT Noges arktiske universitet i Tromsø

Disputasleder:

instituttleder Gustav J. Pedersen, institutt for språk og kultur, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø

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