Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage

The aim of this study was to investigate how entities are conceptualized and quantified in the Gumer Variety Gurage, a South Ethiosemitic language. It specifically uncovered linguistic means used express quantity expressions interact with noun head an NP, predicate verb, grammatical categories, such as gender, number, definiteness. topic is one marginalized areas we do not find investigation on Gurage languages most Ethiopian languages. We cross-sectional qualitative methodology semi-structured key informants interview method. found that nouns inflected for number morphologically; thus, bet “house” can be singular or plural. There are, however, lexically distinct plurals (әrʧ “boy” dengja “boys”; әram “a cow” әraj “cows”). Numerical quantifiers definite articles also show plurality. language distinguishes count mass semantically but structurally. require measure words addition numeral quantifier (sost sin k’awa [three cup coffee “three cups coffee”]), *sost k’awa. Syntactically, precedes classifiers, follows. A agrees when human, verbs clause.