Gumuz Verb Morphology

This pa per presents the ana lysis of Gumuz verb morphology. The paperrnconsists of four par ts . The first part pr esents a brief description of the language ,rnthe people , t he review o f the lit er a ture along with the objective and me thodrnof the study. The second part deals with the phonology of Gumuz, in whichrn39 consonant and 5 vowel phonemes are identified. The syllable structure , thernclusters , the suprasegmetal phoneme , t one , are discussed . Thernmorphophonological proc esses that the a ffix e s under go are also pre se nted.rnThe third part of the p aper is concerend with the verb infl e ctions of t herncategories person, number, tense , aspect, mood and polarity. In this sectionrnseveral pr efixes and suffixes are identified and described. It was found outrnthat all forms of verbs are r egular, e xcept the verb to be . The fourth partrnsummarizes what has been discussed in the preceding sect ions.

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