Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic

ačč aččǝw accusative adpositional adpositional phrase affix Agent alǝ alə Amberber Amharic verb anticausative Appleyard Armbuster Aster Aster washed attaches basic stem basic verb Bender and Fulass boil bound stems causative construction causative prefix causativised chapter cognate object composite verb Consider the examples Consider the following consider the verb cross-linguistically dance Demoz derived English Ethiopian Semitic languages event encoded express external causer ǝčč fǝlla following examples geminated Grammar Hetzron ideophones impersonal passive intr intransitive verbs Lemma Leslau lexical semantic lǝmma Lichtenberk Linguistics marked marker meaning mət't'a morpheme morphologically morphosyntactic non-causative normally noun object agreement occur Oromo passive reading periphrastic periphrastic causative phonological predicate prefix t(ə preverbs properties reciprocal reciprocal pronoun reflexive pronoun reflexive verbs Semitic Languages səbbərə break shown strategy suppletive syntactic take the causative take the prefix transitive form transitivising Type A verbs unaccusative unaccusative verbs unergative verbs valency vowel whereas