The proceedings will be lead by Gustav J. Pedersen, head of the department for language and culture at UIT, the Arctic University of Norway.
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The Voice System of Amharic
Languages have voice systems–often known as active and passive voices. This dissertation is a study of the voice system Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. I present how the voice morphemes in Amharic behave. I have argued that Amharic has no grammatical forms for the passive, middle, unaccusative and the like voice forms which are popular in many European languages. The language has only two voice forms, pretty much similar to the ancient Greek, such as the active and the nonactive. The active voice itself appears in different forms–including the unmarked active voice, as well as marked causative forms. The nonactive comes marked with a single morpheme.
