Inflectional And Derivational Morphology Of Nouns In Some Selected Gurage Languages A Comparative Approach

This thesis attempts to investigate and describe the inflectional andrnderivational morphology of nouns in Gurage languages. It compares andrncontrasts the morphological properties of nouns in the languages. Thernstudy also provides a brief description of the phonemic inventory of thernlanguages The Gurage linguistic group comprises several languages. For ease ofrnmanageability, this study deals with three selected languages of therngroup, namely Soodo, Muher and Eza.Based on their morphological properties, the study categorizes thernselected languages into two: Soddo in one group and Muher and Eza inrnthe other. This study also identifies that Soddo is more conservativernpreserving the archaic morphological forms, while Muher and Eza appearrnto be more innovative.This study also addresses the position of Muher in the group, which is arncontroversial issue for various scholars. The position of Muher, that is,rnwhether it belongs to the Northern Gurage group or to the WesternrnGurage group has been a point of controversy. This study confirms thatrnMuher is closer to the languages of Western Gurage than to those withinrnthe Northern Gurage group.

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