Grammatical aspect and agreement in Amharic: a brief overviewGrammatical Aspect and Agreement in Amharic • October 29th, 2020
Contract Type FiledOctober 29th, 2020Amharic has two kinds of verb form aspectuals– the well-known (canonical) aspectuals such as the perfective and imperfective, and less known verb form aspectuals such as the iterative, repetitive etc,. The canonical aspects are the forms which are available across the whole Semitic linguistic family. They are expressed by a templatic morphology. The second class of aspectual forms, however, appear to be specific to this language. They are explicitly morphologically marked like in European languages; either as prefixes or by particles.