Binyam Sisay

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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.