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Mulusew Asratie.

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This paper tries to provide how tense is mapped in Amharic. Amharic expresses tense periphrastically by using verbs to indicate past and non-past. However, it is not uncommon to find the past tense marker in non-past and the non-past tense markers in past contexts. In all their occurrences, the tense markers show various semantic contrasts to each other in addition to tense. Based on these semantic contrasts, I argue that the mapping of past and non-past tense in Amharic is fashioned in such a way that the past tense marker indicates exclusion and the non-past tense markers indicate inclusion, similar to Iatridou’s (2000) proposal for English and Greek. I also show that the mapping of tense in such a way explains the unique interaction of the tense markers with negation and complementizers (conditionals) in the language.

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Siraye Endalew Wobetie.

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This study was conducted on Functions of Marriage Ritual in Jabi Tehinan district, Amhara Region. Usually, marriage is a drastic transition and transformation of human’s life. Because of this during Marriage different, continuous, and functional rituals are performed. In the Jabi Tehinan district child marriage is still being practiced which makes marriage transition difficult and complex. However, many rituals help couples’ transition and transform this difficult childhood marriage. The rituals have the roles of accompanying the transition of marriage (highlighting), providing treatment (healing), adapting the couples to the transition (exercising the change), announcing the change of status (confirming) and strengthening the social relationships of the community. The study, in general, looked at the rituals that take place from the eve of the wedding to the honeymoon ceremony, where the main transition and change of marriage takes place. The ceremonies have different roles for brides and the community around them.

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Assefa Balcha.

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Based on the available written sources and my own longtime research activities in the area, the paper tries to show why and how indigenous medical manuscripts, despite their incalculable importance, were not properly looked after and preserved in Ethiopia. There are still quite a number of manuscripts that should be thoroughly studied and treasured. For this to happen, a concerted effort is required from individuals and institutions that are committed to preserving the healing tradition of the country and passing them on to the next generation. The object of the study is to examine the challenges of preservation and make some potentially workable recommendations.

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Nyawal James, Daniel Taye, & Meheretu Adnew.

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The purpose of this study was to investigatethe language use on the Nuer kinship terms. The major objective of the thesis was to explore the language use on the Nuer kinship terms. To achieve the objectives of the study, the data was collected through semi-structured key informant interview, elicitation method, focus group discussion, observation checklist, and kinship questionnaire and analyzed thematically and categorically. In this study, a wordlist of kinship terms, ethnographic observation, and personal communication were also used. In the present study, basic phonemes and their distribution in the words were consulted as inputs for the analysis of kinship terms in Nuer. The study discussed the markedness theory and the review of various scholars’ works on kinship terms. The study provided the basic Nuer kinship structures, type of kinship terms, function of kinship terms and address terms are the sole for the discussion of this thesis. The kin terms used in Nuer kinship have been brought into scene for the description of the Nuer Kinship structure and the lineal structure. This study has shown that Nuer Kinship is the patrineal system. The kinship division as consanguine or affinal are considered in Nuer community but the patrineal/consanguine line is the only one considered for the genealogical presentation of the kin. The use of sociolinguistic factors on Nuer kinship terms can heavily depend on semantic interpretation, age set, gender of the addressee and the addresser. In conclusion, Nuer Kinship is complicated when it reaches the second and the third-generation kin. The terms like guar, maar, Nyimaar and demaar (Father, Mother, Sister and Brother) are all in the first generation that also represent the nuclear family. The use of ego generation kin in all its levels has greatly complicated the use of language in Nuer kinship.

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ABEBE ZEGEYE.

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የዘሩት ሲያፈራ በሚል አርእስት የቀረበው የደራሲ ደመቀ ዘነበ መጽሀፍ በደርግ ዘመን የኩባ መንግስት ለኢትዮጵያ ያደረገውን አስተዋኦ የሚመለከት ነው። ይህ መጽሀፍ በዋነኛነት የኩባ መንግስት ለኢትዮጵያ ያደረግውን ድጋፍና በዘመኑ በኩባ የተማሩ ኢትዮጵያውያን የነበራቸውን የሀገር ፍቅር እንዲሁም ወደሀገራቸው ተመልሰው ያደረጉትን አስተዋፆ በስፋት ይገልፃል። ደራሲው ደመቀ ዘነበ ግለ ታሪካቸው ለትውልድ የሚጠቅም መሆኑን በማመን ተዳፍኖ እንዳይቀር በጽሑፍ ለማስተላለፍ መፈለጋቸውን ይገልፃሉ። የመጽሐፍ ዳሰሳው ዓላማም ይህንኑ እሳቤ ለማጠናከርና አንባቢው ተገቢውን ቁም ነገር እንዲቀስምበት ለማበረታታት ጭምር ነው። https://jaalhc.org/papers/volume-12/issue-1/book-reviews-የመጽሐፍ-ዳሰሳ-በየዘሩት-ሲያፈራ-ላይ/publications.html

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Bizualem Amlak.

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This paper examines the structure of noun phrases in Dizin, one of the least linguistically studied languages in the Southwest part of Ethiopia. It focuses mainly on the Maji dialect. It describes different types of elements that appear in noun phrase and their orders in light of Dryer's(2007)cross-linguistic observation. The study follows a qualitative research approach. The data were collected using elicitation from key informants and from natural texts like fables in Maji district. The findings showed that Dizin employs variable order of elements with respect to the head noun or with respect to each other, which is almost similar to Hellental’s (2010) work on closely related language Sheko. Specifically, numerals and demonstratives occur before or after the head noun. While adjectives, quantifiers, and adpositions occur post-nominal, relative clauses occur left-adjacent to the head noun. As a result, Dizin is neither left-headed nor right-headed in the typology of noun phrase structure.

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