An Exploration Of The Washback Effect Of The Hthiopian Higher Education Entrance Certifi Cate (eheec) English Language Examination

The object;l':f'f this paper is b analyse the ve r b 'to be ' in Or omo . Thernpape r has seven sections : In sections one and two identification ofrnthe pr ob l em and a brief survey Df relevant lite rature a r e given. In thernthird section thernshapes is treated.rncopular form ~-Da withrn"- In the fourth sectionrnits diffe r ent allomorphicrnothe r copula r expressions :rnExistence, Location, Attribute, Identity, and Possession in the s i mplerndeclarative pr esent tense are dealt with . In secti~n five ¥ses ofrncopular verbs in the different tenses is shown . I n section six thernnegative form of the c opular expressions~ given . In the concludingrnsection, a brief compa ris on of mo r pho l ogy and syntax of copula rrnexpression s of thr ee ~)anguages : Hindi, Amharic, and Japanesernis carried ou t. Japanese, like Or omo , is said to be of " Rigid III"rnsyntactic type , whereas Hind i and Amharic are supposedly transitional .rnI n the a na lys is of the c opu la a c ontroversial mo r pheme (~wh ich wasrntreated as a possessive ma r ke r by ear lier write rs, is identified as arncopula in this paper. This is'a poi nt of special interest and still ~rnI t is evident that the analysis of the complex ~, c ontroversial.rnsuppletive copular system of Or omo r equires fu r the r work beyond thernlimits of this thesis . Fo r example, the r ole of auxiliaries andrnvari ous transformations invol Ving copulas need to be taken up .

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