Morphology Of Ea

Eža is one of the least studied ‘Gurage Languages’ of the Ethio-Semitic family. Thisrnstudy aims to provide descriptive account of its morphology. Thus, the inflection andrnderivation of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and numerals are considered.rnSome compound nouns and adjectives are also identified.rnIt is shown that nouns are inflected for number, gender, definite article, and differentrntypes of cases. Affixes deriving nominals such as abstract, gerundive, result, group identity,rnagent and instrument are identified.rnForms of pronouns and their inflections are discussed. Subject and object agreementrnpronominal affixes are shown.rnVerbs are grouped based on their radical and stem patterns. It is found that the verbsrnare inflected for person, gender, number, aspect, tense, and mood. Affixes and stem patternsrnthat derive verbs including passive, reflexive, causative, frequentative, reciprocal, reciprocalrncausative, frequentative passive, frequentative of the reciprocal, and causative of thernfrequentative reciprocal are shown.rnTypes of adverbs and their derivations are discussed. It is claimed that some timernadverb deriving affixes show past and future time. Adjectives are grouped into sevenrnsemantic fields and four ways of deriving them is shown. It is found that adjectives are notrninflected for number and person but can be inflected for definite article. Numerals that havernsimple lexical representation are found to be only twelve. The other numerals of thernlanguage are derived from the simple numeral sets. Finally, summary of the main findingsrnof the study

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