Volume 5, Number 1

Temporal Clauses In Argobba, A South Ethio-Semitic Language Spoken In Ethiopia

  Authors

Chimdessa Fekadu Tsega, Wollega University School of Law, Ethiopia

  Abstract

Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic verbal which is mainly practiced in day-to-day message by a people of around 140, 134 societies in the Argobba Zone (Central Statistical Agency (2008:59), Ethiopia, whose linguistic constructions were not fine labeled. The Argobba exists in the cliff hills of northeastern Shewa and southeastern Wollo, a marginal of them are alive in the contiguous clearances of the city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia. The Argobba sort their existing by humanizing florae, by upbringing faunae, flapping and by trade (Hussein, 2006:416). Greatest of the Argobba persons are groups of Islam. As a consequence, the Islamic faith significantly affects the philosophy as well as the existing flair of the humanity. The vital purpose of this article is to offer a complete explanation and skins of temporal clauses of the Argobba linguistic. The paper is descriptive in nature only in Argobba language not comparing with other languages, and then the reading is mostly worried with telling what is really being in the linguistic, and mostly trusts on chief language facts. The language facts, i.e. the elicited grammatical facts regarding Questions, was composed from innate utterers of the linguistic throughout six months of research directed among 2015 and 2016 in Argobba Special woreda, South Wollo Zone of the Amhara Regional State, exactly in the Administrative Medina and five Kebeles which are adjacent to Medina.A subordinate clause can modify the state of affairs in the main predication by relating it temporally to another event or action. This temporal relation between subordinate and main-clause is not absolute but depends on the temporal implications of the main-clause verb.

  Keywords

Subordinate, Clause, Predication, Temporally, Main-Clause, temporal, Affairs