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Baye Yimam

Baye_Yimam

Baye Yimam

Full Name Baye Yimam Mekonnen
Academic Rank/Status Professor, since 1998
Working for AAU since 12-10-1977
Administrative positions held if any/ past and present Director, Institute of Ethiopian StudiesDirector, Ethiopian Languages Research CenterDirector, College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Head, Department of Linguistics

Chair, Faculty Graduate Commission, Institute of

Language Studies
Education attended BA, English, Addis Ababa UniversityMA, Linguistics, Addis Ababa UniversityPhD, Syntax, University of London, School of

and African Studies

 

 
Awards &recognitions FULBRIGHT, Senior Scholar GranteeDutch National Science FoundationDeutsche Academic Exchange Program

Distinguished Researchers’ Award, AAU
Memberships of International bodies Founding Fellow, Academy of African Languages, AUFounding Fellow, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
Publicity: Journals, editorial roles, initiatives etc. Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopaedia AethiopicaMember, Editorial Board, Journal of African Languagesand Linguistics, Leiden

Member, Editorial Board, Eastern Africa Social Science

Research Review

International Advisory Board, The Ethiopian Journal of

Education

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Ethiopian Studies
Research interest/ not more than hundred words Research interest includes syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Ethiopian languages, with focus on Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic.
Publications on reputable journals
  1. Phonological Features of the Variety of Amharic

in South Wällo, Oslo Studies in Language, Vol.

8:1 (9-30)

  1. Wh-questions in Amharic. Frankfurt African

        Studies Bulletin, Vol. 23 (27-48)

  1. Modality in Amharic. Rassegna di Studi etiopici

Vol.iii (41-62). Naples

  1. inja in Amharic. Journal of Ethiopian Studies.

      Vol. XL:1-2, (21-36)

  1. The Verb to Say in Amharic. Journal of

         Ethiopian Studies. Vol.XXX:1 (1-50)

  1. Greetings, Felicitation, and Condolences

Expressions in Four Ethiopian Languages. Journal

         of African Language and Culture. Vol 10:1 (103-

128)

  1. Definiteness in Amharic Discourse. Journal of

        African Languages and Linguistics. Vol.17 (47-83)

  1. Aspects of Zargulla Syntax. Journal of Ethiopian

        Studies. Vol.XXXIII:2 (27-37)

  1. Raising in Amharic. Langues Orientales

        Anciennes, Philologie et Linguistique, CNRS 231-

256

  1. Focus in Oromo. Studies in African Linguistics.

Vol. 19:3 (366-384)

  1. Relative Clause in Oromo. Journal of Ethiopian

        Studies. Vol.10 (60-74)

 
Community Services such as board membership etc. Member of Board, Miskaye Hizunan Medhane AlemMonastery School
Address Campus       Sidist KiloBuilding       Social Sciences BLDThird Floor

Room no.     313

Office telephone

Mobile             0933 18 11 82

University email ID    baye.yimam@aau.edu.et

Alternative email ID   bayemekonnen@gmail.com