This book provides a concise description of the pronominal empty categories of Gamo, an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia. The principles of the GB Theory are relied on to identify the distribution and interpretation of pronominal empty categories in the language. Gamo is found to be a pro-drop language as subject NPs can be covert in a tensed clause. The covert NP subjects, pro, can be recovered from subject NP agreement elements attached on verbs. Its object NPs are not allowed to be covert. The absence of object NP AGR elements is the cause for this. Moreover, nominal features are...
This book provides a concise description of the pronominal empty categories of Gamo, an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia. The principles of the GB T...
