Abstract
Gumuz is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in western Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan. Much dialectal variation exists among the Gumuz but all lects within Ethiopia show evidence of noun incorporation, including that of Gilgel Beles, the focus of this paper. In the past, this noun incorporation in verbs had been overlooked and the verb-noun morpheme pair had been analyzed as one morpheme with infixing inflectional morphology. Thus, verbal ‘roots’ without incorporated nouns had been described as suffixing vs. those with incorporated nouns as infixing verbs (Irwin 1966: 5), or unsplit vs. split (Uzar, Studies in Gumuz: Sese phonology and TMA system, Helmut Buske Verlag, 1989: 371).
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