The inceptive construction and associated topics in Amharic and related languages
This thesis investigates the syntactic features, functions, and diachrony of a complex predicate called ‘the inceptive construction’ which is based on a grammaticalised use of the converbs ‘get up’, ‘pick up’, ‘grasp’, and ‘take’. The languages under investigation are Amharic, Argobba, Harari, Zay,...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik
2016
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128262 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-386-1 |