Formal Analysis of Some Aspects of Amharic Noun Phrases
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This paper presents a syntactic analysis of a fragment of Amharic noun phrases. Amharic noun phrases possess some peculiar characteristics especially relating to the syntax of the definite article. The definite article shows some morphological and distributional characteristics distinct from languages such as English and German, which makes it difficult to directly apply the methods proposed for these languages to the analysis of Amharic noun phrases. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of Amharic noun phrases by combining the methods of the different approaches suggested for analyzing noun phrases. The result shows that the affixial treatment of the Amharic definite article better explains the facts regarding the syntax of Amharic noun phrases.
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