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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,African Studies |
| Keywords | Sociolinguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language, Society, Culture |
| Honours and awards | 2017: Researcher of the Year – College of Humanities, Addis Ababa University 2015: Researcher of the Year – College of Humanities, Addis Ababa University 2011: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (Deutschland) 2008: Endangered Languages Fund (ELF) - UK 2007: Senior Scholars Research Award of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) 2006: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (Deutschland) |
Current contact address
| Country | Ethiopia |
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| City | Addis Ababa |
| Institution | Addis Ababa University (AAU) |
| Institute | Department of Linguistics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Bernd Heine | Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, Köln |
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| Prof. Dr. Roland Ulrich Kießling | Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg |
| Prof. Dr. Axel Fanego Palat | Institut für Afrikanistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Prof. Dr. Alice Mitchell | Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie, Universität zu Köln, Köln |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2002 |
Programme(s)
| 2002 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Leyew Zelealem: Notes on the Linguistic Properties of ɨntɨn & ɨntɨna in Amharic . In: Journal of Afro-Asiatic Languages (JAAL), Institute of Semitic Studies, Princeton. , 2012, 45-72 |
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| 2012 | Leyew Zelealem: The Ethiopian Language Policy: A Historical and Typological Overview. In: Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Literature , 2012, 1-59 |
| 2011 | Leyew Zelealem: Asymmetric Representation of Gender in Amharic . In: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH), Addis Ababa University. , 2011, 71-111 |
| 2011 | Leyew Zelealem: Onomatopoetic Ideophones in Ethiopian Languages, with Particular Reference to Amharic. In: Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2011, 1-46 |
| 2011 | Leyew Zelealem: Wild Plant Nomenclature and Traditional Botanical Knowledge among Three Ethnolinguistic Groups in Northwestern Ethiopia . Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) 2011 |
| 2008 | Leyew Zelealem - Co-Author with Bernd Heine Is Africa a Linguistic Area? . In: Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (eds.) A Linguistic Geography of Africa, Cambridge University Press. . 2008. 15-36 |
| 2007 | Leyew Zelealem: The Dialects of Amharic Revisited . In: Semitica et semitohamitica Berlinensia: Shaker Verlag: Aachen. , 2007, 449-480 |
| 2005 | Leyew Zelealem: Amharic Personal Nomenclature: A Grammar and Sociolinguistic Insight. . In: Journal of African Languages and Cultures, 2005, 181-211 |
| 2005 | Leyew Zelealem: Gwama, A Least-Known Language: The Sketch of its Grammar and Lexicon . In: Working Papers in Linguistics: Ethiopian Languages Research Center. Addis Ababa University: Addis Ababa. , 2005, 1-52 |
| 2004 | Leyew Zelealem: The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages . In: Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Cologne. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Cologne. , 2004, 237-258 |
| 2004 | Leyew Zelealem: The Fate of Endangered Languages in Ethiopia . In: Proceedings of the Eighth FEL Conference on Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights on the Margins of Nations: Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain. , 2004, 35-46 |
| 2003 | Leyew Zelealem: Amharic personal nomenclature: a grammar and sociolingistic insight. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2003, 181-211 |
| 2003 | Leyew Zelealem: The Kemantney Language: A Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Study of Language Replacement. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag., 2003 |