Hirut Woldemaram
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hirut Woldemaram is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
Articles
2016 Linguistic Landscape as standing historical testimony of the struggle against colonization in Ethiopia Memory and memorialization, Ben-Rafael, Eliezer and Elana Shohamy (eds.), pp. 275–290 | Article
Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Italy, which is considered as a war time, the country has never been colonized. The Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia and the… read more
2015 Imagined community: The linguistic landscape in a diaspora Linguistic Landscape 1:1/2, pp. 172–190 | Article
In this article, we investigate how the linguistic landscape serves as an important strategy among a diaspora community not only to maintain a transnational identity but also to construct a unique identity in the recipient society. We examine the linguistic landscape in the Ethiopian diaspora of… read more
2009 Haro Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages, Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (ed.), pp. 97–122 | Article
In Haro, an Omotic language of Ethiopia, participants are encoded both on nouns as well as verbs. The principal strategy used to mark participants is by way of morphology. Apart from Agents and Patients (or Goals), noun phrases with Dative, Comitative, Instrumental and Ablative roles are identified… read more