• B.A. in Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 1986.
• MA in Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 1993.
• PhD in Linguistics, Norwegian University Science and Technology (NTNU), 2006.

Office no 012

Mobile Tel: 251-911002420

Email: wondwosen.tesfaye@aau.edu.et Or

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• Formal Linguistics specially on morpho-syntax
• Documentation and description of endangered languages
• Sociolinguistics
• Semantics

Book:

    Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2015. The Grammar of Mositacha. A book published in Addis Ababa University Printing Press.

Articles:

1. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2020. “The Comparative Phonology of Konsoid” in Macrolinguistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (serial No. 13), pp. 83-104.

2. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2020. “Revisiting Adjectives in Diraytata” in ZENA LISSAN, Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 22-42

3.  Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2020. “Gender and Number in Mosittacha” in ZENA LISSAN, Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 29 No. 1, pp. 1-29

4. Alemayehu Fekede and Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2020. “Multilingual Practices and Multiple Contestations in the Linguistic Landscape of Selected Towns in Oromia: Ageosemiotic perspective.” In Macrolinguistics, Vol8, No. 1 (serial No. 12), pp. 105-124.

5. Alemayehu Fekede and Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2019. “Analysis of Linguistic Landscape of Selected Towns in Oromia: The Case of Policy and Practice Gap” Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies (EJSSLS), Vol.6 No.2, pp. 3-25.

6. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2015. “Orthography for Dhiraytata language in Latin alphabet order”. An article published in ZENA LISSAN, Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, VOL. 24 No.1.

7. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2014. “The Interaction between Case and Focus in Dhiraytata”. An article published in ZENA LISSAN, Journal of the Academy of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 23 No. 1

8. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2012. “Paasivization in Afaan Oromoo”.  An Electronic Journal of Studies in Ethiopian Languages. Japan Vol.1

9. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2010, “The Category of Adjectival Elements in Diraytata (Gidole)”. A paper presented on the 17^th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies and published in ZENA LISSAN, Journal of the Academy of Ethiopian Languages and Cultures, Vol XXI, No. 1, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa.

10. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2007. “Definiteness in Diraytata” An article published in a book Researches in Ethiopia Studies (Harald Aspin, Shiferaw Bekele and Berhanu Zewde (eds.). Trondheim, Norway. Publishers: Harrassowitz/ Verlang.

11. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2007.” Laguu in Oromo a sociolinguistic approach”. An article published in Azeb Amha, M. Mous and G. Save (eds.) in the 4^th Proceedings of Cushitic and Omotic languages. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag.

12. Wondwosen Tesfaye. 2000. “The Status of West and North Bussa: a comparative study”. Published in the Proceedings of 14^th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 3, November 6-11, 2000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.