For an overview of Azeb Amha's research and publications, visit her profile on the ASCL website.

Dr Azeb Amha is a senior researcher and lecturer at the African Studies Centre Leiden. Her interest is in grammar, linguistic typology and in the interdisciplinary fields of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Azeb did her BA and MA in linguistics at Addis Ababa University. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University, with her thesis on the grammar of the Maale language of Ethiopia. She publishes on Amharic, Maale, Oyda, Woalitta and Zargulla languages as well as on comparative research on themes of grammar and social interaction in various African languages. Through her linguistic documentation projects, Azeb has produced audio-visual digital archives of three Omotic languages (Oyda, Woalitta and Zargulla) on various cultural practices, including work- songs, animal-directed speech, whistled-names, narratives and conversations on cultural and technical knowledge on house construction and farming.

Azeb teaches in the MA and Research MA African Studies programmes of Leiden University on the topics language and power, linguistic diversity and language policy, research methods and inter-cultural communication. She served for 15 years as editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL). She is a member of the editorial board of Elements in Linguistic Diversity Series of Cambridge University Press. Azeb is chair of the Research Master African Studies and head of the Netherlands Association of African Studies (NVAS).

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