Home Linguistics Staff Profile

Institute of Language Studies

PDF Print

  

                                  FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF

 

Baye Yimam  (Prof.) Debela Goshu Bikale Seyoum
Michael Kleiner (Prof.) Derib Ado Amsalu Tefera
Orin Gensler (Prof.) Endashaw Weldemichael Abebayehu Messele
Binyam Sisay (PhD) Endris Mohammed Shimelis Mazengia
Moges Yiegezu (PhD) Beniam Mitiku Eyasu Hailu
Hirut W/Mariam (PhD) Binyam Ephrem Endalew Assefa
Zelealem Leyew (PhD) Kassa Tilahun Girma Mengistu

  

Baye Yimam(Prof.)

alt

 Professor

Chairperson of the Department                                                 Top

Ph.D,SOAS , University of London

Area of interest: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics,Morpho-Syntax

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 


Selected publications

  • Baye Yimam (in press) Cursing in Ethiopian Languages. A cross-cultural perspective
  • Baye Yimam (in press) A Comparative Study of Two Letters. 2nd International Conference on Ethiopian Philology
  • Baye Yimam. 2006. Philology some introductory points. In: Moges Yigezu et al (eds.)
    Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Ethiopian Philology. Addis Ababa University, (1-18)
  • Baye Yimam. 2006. A general description of Mao. Working Paper. Ethiopian Languages Research Center. Vol ii:2 (166-225)
  • Baye Yimam 2006 Personal names and identity formation. A cross-cultural perspective. In: I. Strecker and Jean Lydal, (eds) The Perils of Face. Berlin: Lit Veralg
  • Baye Yimam. 2006.The Morphosyntactic Properties of the Form bïcca in Amharic. In:Siegberg Uhlig, (ed.) Proceedings of the15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. (715-726). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Baye Yimam. 2006. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect, and Agreement in Amharic. In: John Mugane, John P. Hutchison and Dee A. Worman (eds.) 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (193-202)
  • Baye Yimam. 2006. Relative clause in Anywa. Lisan: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Vol 19:2, (1-23)
  • Baye Yimam 2004. Agreement Phenomena in Amharic. In: Verena Böll et al (eds) Studia Aetiopica in Honour of Sieberg Uhlig on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. (319-337), Harrassowitz Verlag

 

Michael Kleiner (Prof.)

alt

  Professor                                                                                                                   Top

 Area of interest: Philology

 E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

Orin Gensler(Prof.)

alt

Professor                                                                    Top

PhD,University of California at Berkeley, USA-Comparative Linguistics and Typology

Area of interest : Comparative Linguistics and Typology

E-mail address :

  

 Binyam Sisay (PhD)

 

alt

 

 

PhD, OSLO University

Area of interest : Omotic Linguistics; Morpho-Syntax

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

 Selected publications

Binyam Sisay. (forthcoming). Grammaticalization of Existential Auxiliaries in Koorete. Omotic and Cushitic Studies: Papers from the Fifth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Paris.

Binyam Sisay. 2008. Aspects of Koorete Verb Morphology. Acta Humaniora, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo.

Binyam Sisay. 2007. Simple Nominal Complements in Koorete. Omotic and Cushitic Studies: Papers from the Fourth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Cologne: Rdiger Kppe.

Binyam Sisay. 2004b. Some Nominal Specifiers in Koorete. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, Germany, Harrasowitz Verlag Publishers

Binyam Sisay. 2004a. An Overview of Koorete Relative Clauses. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Institute of Language Studies . Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press.

 

 Moges Yiegezu(PhD)                                                                               Top

alt

 Associate Professor

PhD University Libre de Bruxelles(ULB),bELGIUM

Area of interest : Nilo-Saharan Linguistics;Phonetics and phonology.

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Selected publications

  • Moges Yigezu. 2006. The phonetic characteristics of Majang Implosives. Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies. (July, 2003) Hamburg.
  • Moges Yigezu et al (eds.) 2006. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on
    Ethiopian Philology. October 15-16, 2004, Ras Mokonnen Hall. AAU Printing Press.
  • Moges Yigezu. 2006. Introduction. In the Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Ethiopian Philology, pp. vii-xi. (October 15-16, 2004, Ras Mekonnen Hall), Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University. AAU Printing Press.
  • Moges Yigezu. 2006. The vowel system of Kara from a historical-comparative perspective. Proceedings of the 7th Hamito-Semitic Congress. (September 13-15, 2004) University of Berlin, Germany.
  • Moges Yigezu. 2005. Aspects of Murle Phonology. Journal of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 38:1
  • Moges Yigezu. 2005. Convergence of Baale, a Southwest Surmic Language, to the Southeast Surmic group: Lexical evidence, in Annual Publications in African Linguistics, APAL 3 (2005):4966. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne.
  • Moges Yigezu. 2005. Ethiopia: Language Situation, in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier Ltd.
  • Moges Yigezu. 2005. On K’ebena Orthography. LISSAN: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, vol. 1, no.2, pp. 211-231.
  • Moges Yigezu & David Turton. 2005. Latin-based Mursi Orthography. ELRC Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 1, no.2, pp.242-257.

 

Hirut W/Mariam(PhD)                                                                             Top

  • altAssociate Professor

    PhD Addis Ababa University and Cologne University ,Germany

    Area of interest : Omotic Lnguistics;Morphology

    E-Mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

     

     Selected publications

    • Hirut Woldemariam. “Oyda”. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica volume 4. Hamburg. (in preparation).
    • Hirut Woldemariam and Elizabeth Lanza. 2008. Language ideology and linguistic landscape in Ethiopia: the case of Tigray. The Linguistic Landscape : Expanding the scene. Routledge.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2007. “The Challenges of Mother tongue education in Ethiopia”. Language Matters. Vol. 38(2). L.A Barnes (ed). UNISA (University of South Africa).
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2007. “Some aspects of the phonology and morphology of Dawuro”. Folia Orientalia. Vol. 42. Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2008. “Historical notes on numerals in Ometo: The obsolete quinary system”. Journal of Ethiopian Studies. Vol. 43
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2007. “Deictics in Gamo”. Proceedings of the conference on Deictics, copula and focus in the Ethiopian convergence area, Mainz. Cologne : Rudiger Köppe Verlag.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2007. “Participant Marking in Haro”. Coding participant marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages. ” Gerrit Dimmendaal (ed.). Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2007. “Historical notes on third person singular pronouns in the Ometo languages” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Leiden. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe verlag.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2006. Report on the First International Symposium on Ethiopian Philology. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Ethiopian Philology. Addis Ababa University.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2005. “GAMO: a dialect variant or a group with its own Dialects?” Cushitic-Omotic Studies. Yoichi TSUGE (ed). Kanazawa University, JAPAN. PP. 67-78.
    • Hirut Woldemariam .2005 “Notes on the North Ometo Dialects: Mutual Intelligibility tests and structural variation”. Cushitic – Omotic Studies. Yoichi TSUGE (ed). Kanazawa University. JAPAN. pp. 79-112.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2005. The Orthography of Wolaitta, Gamo, Gofa and Dawuro: Problems and Recommendations. ELRC Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 1. No 2.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2005. Aspects of grammatical properties that distinguish the East Ometo group from the North Ometo group and the position of Ganta. LISSAN: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, V. 19. No.2.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2001. Demonstratives in Dawuro. In Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst et al. (eds.), Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere Special Issue on North-East Africa Linguistic and Literary studies. Vol. 65. pp 157-167.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 2001. Number Marking in Tirma. In Marianne Bechhaus- Gerst et al. (eds.), Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere. Vol. 63. pp 93-101.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 1999. An autosegmental approach to the Geez-based Amharic plurals. Journal of Ethiopian languages and Literature, Vol. 8. Addis Ababa University.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 1999. Causativization in Yam. l999. Proceedings of the 9th ILS Conference, Addis Ababa University.
    • Hirut Woldemariam. 1995. Verb formation in Yam. In Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Literature, Vol. 6.

 

Zelealem Leyew (PhD)

alt Associate Professor                                                     

PhD AAU and Cologne University ,Germany          

Area of interest :Descriptive Linguistics and Socio linguistics

 E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Selected publications

  • "Language Death in Northwestern Ethiopia". Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, V.1, 525-542, Kyoto University: Japan. 1997.
  • "Code-Switching: Amharic-English". Journal of African Cultural Studies, V. 11, no. 2, 197-216. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (1998a).
  • "An Ethiopian Language on the Verge of Extinction, Kemantney: A Preliminary Sociolinguistic Survey".  International Journal of the Sociology of Language, V. 134, 69-84. Mouton de Gruyter. (1998b)
  • "Some Structural Signs of Obsolescence in Kemantney". Endangered Languages in Africa, Brenzinger, M. (ed.), 163-185. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Cologne. (1998c).
  • "The Lexicon in a dying Language: The case of Kemantney. Journal of Ethiopian studies, V. XXXVI No 1, 41-74 Addis Ababa University: Addis Ababa (2003a)
  • "Comparative Constructions in Africa: An Areal Dimension". Co-author with Bernd Heine Annual Publication in African Linguistics(APAL), No1 47-68 Rudiger Koppe Verlag, Cologne. (2003b)
  • The Kemantney Language: A sociolinguistic and Gramatical study of Language replacement" Rudiger Koppe Verlag: Cologne. (2003c) (BOOK) 
  • "The fate of Endangered Languages in Ethiopia". Proceeding of the Eighth FEL conference on Endangered Language and Linguistic Rights on the margins of nations, 35-46. Barcenola(Catalonia), Spain (2004a) 
  • "The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages" Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, 237-258 Rudiger Koppe Verlang: Cologne (2004b).
  • "Amharic Personal Nomenclature: A Grammar and Sociolinguistic Insight". Journal of African Cultures V 16, 181-211 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: London (2005a).
  • "Gwama: A Least-Known Language. The sketch of its Grammar and Lexicon" Working papers in Linguistics V 1, 1: 1-52. Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University: Addis Ababa (2005b).
  •  The Dialects of Amarica Revisited". Semitica et semitohamitica Berlinensia, Band 5, 449-480. Shaker Verlang: Aachen(2007a) 
  • "Is Africa a lenguistic area?" Co-Auter with Bernd Heine. ALinguistic Geography of Africa, Derek Nurse (ed.). 15-36. Cambridge university Press (2007b) 

 

Abebayehu Messele

alt

  Lecturer

PhD student at The University of Sheffield, UK

Area of interest : Clinical Linguistics 
E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 

 

 

 Amsalu Tefera

alt

 Lecturer                                                                Top

PhD Student at AAU & University of Florence, Italy
Area of interest : Philology (Ge'ez)
E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

 Selected publications

  • Amsalu Tefera - ‘Homiletics Hand book’, a text book for HolyTrinityTheologicalCollege, 2006.
  • Amsalu Tefera - ‘Curriculum for Clergy Training centers of The Ethiopian Orthodox TewahidoChurch’, (Amharic version), sponsored by EOC-DICAC, A.A. 2006.
  • Amsalu Tefera - Ge’ez – Sabaic relations: a comparative study on their Phonology, Morphology and Lexicon similarities’, a paper read on the Second International Symposium on Ethiopian Philology, AAU, Jan. 2006.
  • Amsalu Tefera - Mälkə’a Krəstos: The Vita of a less-known Ethiopian Holy monk’. A paper read on the 19th annual conference of the Institute of Language Studies, AAU at Kality campus (June 8-9/2007) (in press).
  • Amsalu Tefera - Mälkə’a Krəstos an entry in Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 3, pp. 711-712, 2008.
  • Amsalu Tefera - 'Theological College of St. Paul', an entry in Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.) Encyclopedia Aethiopica, vol. 4 (in press).
  • Amsalu Tefera - Sinemigbar laman? 'Ethics to whom?' 2nd book, published Oct. 2008, at Banawee Printing press.

 

 

Beniam Mitiku

alt

 Lecturer                                                                                                                         Top

PhD Student at AAU & University of Cologne, Germany

Area of interest : Syntax, Socio Linguistics

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Selected Publications

  • Beniam Mitiku. 2007. ‘Lexical peculiarities of the Amharic variety spoken in Harar’. LISSAN-Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, volume XX:2.
  • Beniam Mitiku. 2006(b). (forthcoming). ‘The Interaction of Accusative and Definiteness in Harari’. Proceedings of the 5th World Conference of African Linguistics.
  • Beniam Mitiku. 2006(a). The Syntax of Measure and Classifier Phrases in Harari’. Working Papers. ELRC. Addis Ababa University. No 2, vol.2, (269-283)
  • Beniam Mitiku. 2004. ‘The Structure of NP in Harari’. Unpublished MA Thesis. School of Graduate Studies, Addis Ababa University

 

Bikale Seyoum

 alt

 

Assistant Professor

PhD Student at AAU

Area of interest : Sociolinguistics, Omotic Linguistics

E-mail address :: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Binyam Ephrem

alt

 Lecturer                                                                   Top

MPhil. University of Science and Techenology (NTNU),Norway

Area of interest : Computational Linguistics, syntax, Grammar Engineering, Semitic studies

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Debela Goshu                                                                                    Top

Lecturer

PhD student at University of OSLO

Area of interest : Semantics

E-mail address :

 

Derib Ado

alt

 Lecturer

PhD Student at AAU 

Area of interest : Experimental Phonetics and Syntax

E-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Endalew Assefa Temesgen

 Lecturer

MA, AAU

Area of interest: General Linguistics

E-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Endashaw Weldemichael

alt

 Lecturer

MA,AAU

Area of interest : Sociolingustics

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Endris Mohammed                                                                                 Top

alt

 Lecturer

PhD Student at AAU & University of Florence, Italy

Area of interest : Arabic Philology

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Eyasu Hailu

alt

 Lecturer

MA,AAU

Area of interest : Sociolinguistics & Sign Language Lingustics

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Girma Mengistu                                                                                   Top

alt

 Lecturer

MA, AAU

Area of interest: Morphology & Syntax

E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Kassa Tilahun

alt

Lecturer

MA,AAU

Area of interest : Computational Linguistics and Syntax

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Shimelis Mazengia                                                                                Top

alt

 Assistant Professor

PhD Student at AAU

Area of interest : Comparative Linguistics

E-mail address : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

 

 

                                                           ADJUNCT PROFESSORS

                                                                                                                                        Top

Paolo Marrassini, University of Florence, Italy-Professor of Ethiopian Philology

Alessandro Bausi, University of Naples, Italy- Professor of Ethiopian Philology

Alessandro Gori, University of Florence, Italy-Associate Professor of Arabic Philology

Klaus Wedekind, Summer Istitute of Linguistics (SIL), Germany, Professor of Experimental Phonetics

Gordon Ramsay, Haskins Laboratories, Yale University, USA, Associate Professor of Experimental Phonetics

 

                                                     

                                                          HOME-BASED INSTRUCTORS

Mulugeta Seyum- Assistant Professor- Ethiopan Languages Research Center(PhD, University of Leiden, the Netherlands)-Morphosyntax  

Wondwosen Tesfaye-Assistant Professor-Ethiopian Language Research Center(PhD, Universty of TromsO,Norway)-Morphosyntax

                          

                                                               SUPPORT STAFF

                                                                                                                                                                            Top

Wubit Teklu: Department Secretary

Mulualem Belay : Department Secretary

Mihret Daba: Laboratory Technician

Yeshwork Gezahegn:  messanger

Adanech: janitor

 

 Assistant Professor
Last Updated ( Monday, 30 November 2009 16:11 )
 
VALID CSS   |   VALID XHTML