Azeb Amha

Azeb Amha is a linguist working on the morphology and syntax of Afroasiatic languages, with a special focus on Omotic languages. A senior researcher at the African Studies Center Leiden, Amha is co-editor of the international Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (with Felix Ameka) and member of the board of the Dutch Society for African Studies (NVAS).

After undergraduate studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, Amha obtained her PhD degree from Leiden University. Her thesis, a comprehensive grammar of the Maale language of South-West Ethiopia, was hailed as "an example of descriptive linguistics at its best".[1] Her broad-ranging work since then has involved research on and audio-visual documentation of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Oyda, Zargulla and Wolaitta peoples, whose languages belong to the Omotic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

In 2007, her research on language endangerment and audiovisual documentation (with Maarten Mous and Anne-Christie Hellenthal) was one of 7 finalists for the Academische Jaarprijs [2] and in 2016, she was awarded a competitive research grant for a three year project of the Endangered Languages Documentation Project for the linguistic and ethnographic documentation of endangered cultural practices of the Zargulla people in South-West Ethiopia.[3]

Key publications
  • Amha, Azeb. 1996. Tone-accent and prosodic domains in Wolaitta. Studies in African Linguistics 25(2). 111–138.
  • Amha, Azeb. 2001. The Maale Language (CNWS Publications 99). Leiden: Leiden University.
  • Amha, Azeb & Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 2006. Converbs in an African perspective. In Ameka, Felix K. & Dench, Alan & Evans, Nicholas (eds.), Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, 393–440. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Amha, Azeb. 2012. Omotic. In Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Shay, Erin (eds.), The Afroasiatic Languages, 423–504. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Meyer, Ronny & Treis, Yvonne & Amha, Azeb. 2014. Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics: complex predicates, finiteness and interrogativity. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag.
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References
  1. Hayward, Richard J. (2009). "What's been Happening in Omotic?". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 42 (1/2): 85–106. ISSN 0304-2243. JSTOR 41967463. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  2. ""Letterenteam Mous bij beste zeven Academische Jaarprijs 2007".
  3. "New research project documenting Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language in Ethiopia".
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