October 2016

Grammaticalization of the Amharic word fit “face” from a body part to grammatical meanings

This study focuses on the polysemy of the Amharic fit “face”, its body–part term and grammaticalized meanings. The data has been collected from the wide range of written sources and from the internet due to absence of corpus data. By considering the functional-grammaticalization theoretical model, the grammaticalization of fit “face” is identified to be between the intermediate and advanced...

Author(s): Daniel Aberra