Valency Decreasing in South Ethio-Semitic Languages

The current paper focuses on a descriptive approach to valency decreasing in five SESL (Amharic, Kɨstane, Məsqan, Harari and Endəgaɲ). As result, simple viewpoint does not compel the data analysis comply with an explicitly theorized framework. By using elicitation method, native speakers were consulted access data. It has been debated whether value is semantic or syntactic concept. concept, it used denote number of arguments construction and, semantically, refer participants event. Since spoken Ethiopia, we can identify various transitivity classes verbs: verbs that are intransitive; those transitive; ditransitively. Aside from these, be transitive intransitive sentences. existence grammatical relations language clearly demonstrated, which essential examination concept SESL. Similar many other languages, morphosyntactic tools for changing verbs. changes depending how these processes used. Passivization, reflexivization, reciprocation main valency-decreasing techniques