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Gashaw Arutie Asaye (PhD)
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Assistant Professor

Gashaw Arutie Asaye

  • Departmen:Bahir Dar University, Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature –Amharic,
  • Position/Status: Assistant Professor of Descriptive and Theoretical Linguistics
  • E-mail Address: gashgebu@gmail.com
  • Phone: +912660825 
  1. Biography

Not interested to state it. 

  1. Awards and Honors

No awards yet received. 

  1. Teaching Experience 

2020- 

Assistant professor.

Bahir Dar University, Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature –Amharic, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 

2012-2020

Lecturer

Arba Minch University, Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature –Amharic, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

2009-2010

Graduate Assistant I

Arba Minch University,  Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature –Amharic, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

 

  1. Research interests

Morpho-syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Cognitive linguistics         

  1. Research projects since joining BDU

Ethio Semitic adpositions

 

  1. Conferences Attended

2025.04.02

Dative constructions in Ethiosemitic. International conference on International Scientific Conference on “Language and Communication in the Context of Culture” at the Faculty of Linguistics and Journalism of Rostov State University of Economics (RINH)

2024.12.12.

Metaphorical conceptualization of Emotive concepts. 1st Eurasian Congress of Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

2024.12.13.  

Teaching Amharic as a Foreign Language: Harmonizing Syllabi and Establishing an International Testing Center , University of Hamburg,

2021.06.11.

Lexicalization of Motion Events in Amharic. Presented at 10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 10) in a virtual environment. 

2021.05.16

Linguistic Diversity in Ethiopia: The Relationship between Language Attitude and Ethnic-based Conflicts Presented at 8thannual national research conference, Debre Markos University.

2018.04.25

jəgodʒdʒam amarɨɲɲa ləji sɨrʔatədɨms’awinna mɨʔɨladə dɨms’awi bahɨrijat ‘Phonological and Morphophonemic Peculiarities of the Amharic Variety of Godʒdʒam,’  presented at 6th national symposium on Amharic language and cultural affairs, Bahir Dar University.     

2018.06.12

Frames of Reference in Amharic, presented at 26th annual conference of CHLSJC, Addis Ababa University.  

2017.05.06 

Toward Amharic Deictic Verbs, presented at 5th national symposium on Amharic language and cultural affairs, Bahir Dar University     

2013.04.20 

jəʔamarɨɲɲa-ɨngɨlizɨɲɲa guramajlenətna jək’ʷank’ʷa k’ɨlk’əla ‘Amharic-English Code-mixing and Code-switching’, presented at 1st national symposium on Amharic language and cultural affairs, Bahir Dar University.

 

  1. Publications

2021.

Metaphorical conceptualization of emotive concepts in Amharic. Ethiopian Journal of Languages and Literature Vol.17. 1-18.

2021

Static locative expressions in Amharic. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 42(1). 1-26.

2021

Conceptions of life and death in Amharic: A view from cognitive semantics. Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 54(2). 25-52.

2020.

The semantics of locative adpositions in Amharic. Aethiopica. Vol.23. 168-187.

2020.

Dissertation abstract: the semantics and pragmatics of Amharic spatial expressions. Aethiopica. Vol.23. 315-316.

2019

Conceptions of time with the source domain of space. Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture, and Communication 4(1).55-75.

2019

Book review: Amharic grammar in a simple presentation. Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture, and Communication 4(1).97-102.

2018

Some morpho-phonological processes in Amharic. Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture, and Communication 3 (2). 181-192. 

2017

Spatial frame of reference in Amharic. Zena-Lisan: Journal of Academy of Ethiopian Languages and cultures.