Binyam Sisay
Name: Binyam
Father’s name:Sisay
Grand father’s name:Mendisu
Education attended:
- BA, Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 2000
- MA, Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, 2002
- PhD, Linguistics, University of Oslo, 2008
Academic rank:Assistant Professor (since 2008)
Working for AAU:Since2002
Administrative position held:
Coordinator, Graduate Program, Department of Linguistics (2008-2010)
Dean, Faculty of Humanities (2010-2012)
Address:
Campus:Main
Building: College of Social Sciences
Floor number:3rd
Office room no.:366
Office tel: +251111239755
Mobile:+251911662190
University email:binyam.sisay@aau.edu.et
Alternative email:b.s.mend@gmail.com
Research interest:The grammatical description and documentation of Omotic languages;
mother tongue education; reading instruction; language and colonization and
computer-mediated-communication.
Publications on reputable journals:
2013: (co-authored with SemenehAyalew) “What is in a Term? A Historical and Linguistic
Examination of the Revolutionary Terminology – yiwdem ‘let it be demolished’ in
Amharic 1974-1977”.Journal of Northeast African Studies 13, no 1: Michigan State
University Press.
2012: A Sketch Grammar of an Omotic Language: Koorete. Semitic and Afro-asiatic:
Challenges and Opportunities, ed. Lutz Edzard.PortaLinguarumOrientalium.
Wiesbaden: HarrassowitzVerlag.
2010: Aspects of Koorete Verb Morphology. Cushitic and Omotic Studies I. RÜdiger
Köppe publishing house, Cologne, Germany.
2009: (co-authored with ShimelisMazengia), Ethiopian Linguistics at the Dawn of the 21st
Century.Journal of Ethiopian Studies. Vol. XLII, nos. 1-2.
2009: Copula and/or Focus – the Morpheme –(k)ko in two East Ometo Languages. In
Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer (eds.) Language Contact and Language Change in
Ethiopia (Topics in African Linguistics Vol 14), RÜdigerKöppeVerlag.