| dc.description.abstract | This work is an attempt to describe the
predication structure of the Amharic language following
Leech's method of predication analysis. Our hypothesis
is that there are one-place, two-place and no-place
predicates and forms which seem syntactically simple
but that have complex semantic structures.
Predication analysis claims that a
predication can be broken down into its constituents:
arguments and predicates. Besides. according to the
number of arguments a predication may take, we have
only three types of predicate and their corresponding
kinds of predication; namely, a one-place predicate
that takes one argument, a two-place predicate that
requires two arguments and a no-place predicate that
does not take any argument at all. Moreover, this
predication analysis together with comp6nential analysis
is believed to enable us to represent the greater part
of the meaning of a sentence. While discussing the
predication structure of Amharic, we test the validity
of the claims made and our study reveals that
predication analysis is adequate to explain the facts
of Amharic. Accordingly, we have demonstrated that
there are only three types of predicates and their
corresponding kinds of predication in Amharic. | en |
