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identifier to cite or link to this item: |Title: ||WORD
FORMATION IN DIDDESSA MAO| |Authors: ||ALEMAYEHU, DUMESSA|
|Advisors: ||Dr. Zelealem Leyew| |Copyright: ||2008 | |Date
Added: ||13-Jan-2009 | |Publisher: ||Addis Ababa University|
|Abstract: ||This thesis has attempted to investigate and
describe the word formation processes in Diddessa Mao, the
variety of Northern Mao of Omotic family spoken around Diddessa
River Valley. Derivation, compounding and reduplication have
been dealt with as the major word formation processes. The
derivational processes in this variety of Mao included
nominalization, verbalization, and adjectivalization. Derived
nominals such as: manner nominals suffix /-ä/ to action verbs.
Abstract nominals suffix/-iyä/ to adjectival and nominal bases.
Action nominals suffix /-i/ to verb roots, and result nominals s