Abstract:
This paper presents the morphosyntactic markers of the genitive construction in
Amharic. In Amharic, genitive markers are bound morphemes which are either
prefixed or suffixed to the noun they modify. The genitive markers show some
morphological and inflectional characteristics different from languages such as
English and Greek. Amharic's uniqueness makes it difficult to directly apply the
methods proposed for these languages to the analysis of noun phrases that form
the Amharic genitive. In this paper I present the construction of genitives in
Amharic by taking examples of noun phrases that are frequently used in written
and oral communication.
