• DP internal agreement in Amharic : a reverse agree solution 

      Workneh, Desalegn Belaynew (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-15)
      The main objective of this thesis is demonstrating that the DP internal functional elements in Amharic are the lexicalizations of the agreement between the functional projections in higher positions with the lexical elements in the c-command domains of these functional projections. The complex distribution of the functional elements such as the gender, number, definiteness and case markers is argued ...
    • The voice system of Amharic 

      Workneh, Desalegn Belaynew (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-09-04)
      This dissertation examines the voice system of Amharic. I have studied the voice features including the anticausative and a pair of causative functional items focusing on their selection, interpretation and syntactic projection. The voice items display some interesting properties that made them worth an in­depth investigation. First, the single anticausative morpheme is associated with multiple ...