Wakweya Gobena

Education

• MA in linguistics, Addis Ababa University. (Inflectional Morphology in Oromo), 2014.
• BA in English language teaching, Jimma University. (The influence of mother tongue interference during group discussions in English classes of 12th-grade students), 2010.

Professional assignments

• Research fellow, project C08/SFB 1287, University of Potsdam (May 2022 – June 2023) 
• PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam (2023 – present).
• PhD Student, Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University (2016 – present).
• Lecturer and researcher, Department of English Language and Literature, Jimma University (Sept. 2014 – April 2022).

Scholarships

• Short-term fellowship in project C08/SFB 1287: “Consequences of Head and Argument Order for Syntax”, University of Potsdam (May 15, 2022 – May 14, 2023).
• Doctoral project completion scholarship, the University of Potsdam (2023 – 2025).

Publications

Wakweya Gobena, Desalegn Hagos & Ronny Meyer. (in press). Copula and possession in Oromo: a typological perspective.

Wakweya Gobena (2023). Bivalent patterns in Oromo. In: Say, Sergey (ed.). BivalTyp: Typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames. (Available online at https://www.bivaltyp.info)

Serawit H., Lombebo T., Wakweya G., Ephrem T. Endrias T., Asrat W. Tesfaye A. (2020). Challenges and Opportunities of Implementation of Industry Extension Service Program in MSE/SME and TVETs. Journal of Education Policy, 2: 62 – 74.   

Wakweya Gobena, Desalegn Hagos & Ronny Meyer. (2019). The verb k’ab- in Oromo. Zena-Lissan, 28(1) pp.91-121.

Wakweya Gobena and Elizabeth Minasse. (2018). Motion event construction in Oromo: semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 9 (4) 16-30.

Wakweya Gobena. (2017b). Inflectional morphology in mecha Oromo. Journal of Languages and Culture, 8 (8) pp. 110 – 140.

Wakwweya Gobena. (2017a). The feature of ATR and ATR harmony in Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia. International Journal Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 16(2) pp. 62 – 75.

Conferences

2023

• March 25: Existential possession in the languages of the Ethiopian area. Linguistics Spring Colloquium (virtual), University of North Carolina2022
• April 07: Predicative possession in Amharic. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 53-virtual), the University of California San Diego.

2021

• October 27: Demonstrative constructions in Oromo. Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT 2021-International Workshop Series), University of Helsinki.
• October 02: Copular constructions of possession in Sheko (Omotic). 2^nd International Conference on Omotic Language Studies, Arba Minch University.
• July 19: The verb k’ab- in Oromo. Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS-virtual), The University of Toledo

2020

• October 27: Copula and possession in Oromo: a typological perspective. 28^th Annual Research Conference, Addis Ababa University.
• September 22: Euphemistic expressions in Oromo syntax: an ethno-linguistic perspective. International Research Conference (IADA-virtual), University of Warsaw.
• January 01: Regulatory framework for the implementation of the Industry Extension Service Program in Ethiopian TVET Institutions. 3rd National Annual Research Conference, Higher Education Strategy Centre.

2019

• June 07: The verb ‘to have’ in Oromo. 27^th Annual Research Conference, Addis Ababa University.

2016

• April 01: Inflectional morphology in mecha Oromo. 7th Annual Research Conference, Jimma University