Rahel T. Dires
Author, Freelancer and PhD candidate
Rahel T. Dires [ra'ɛl] ['ti] ['dires] is an author, freelance Web Designer, Graphic Designer and science communicator.
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In February 2024 she published her first children's book Yael's Whimsical Quest: Heritage Uncovered, available on Amazon (Kindle), Google Books, Lulu and Kobo. The Italian edition of her book Il Viaggio Incantato di Yael is now available on Amazon.
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Her doctoral research in Linguistics at the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki is currently on hold.
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Creative Interests
Design
Illustrator
Graphic design
Photography
Digital products
Web design
Digital marketing
Science communication
Research Interests
Rahel's main area of interest includes languages spoken in the Horn of Africa.
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In her BA thesis, she analysed and collected loanwords from Italian, English and French into Amharic.
During her MA studies, her interest in Afroasiatic languages increased: her thesis was a study on situatives in Somali and Amharic, through the innovative Constructive Adpositional Grammars (CxAdGrams) framework.
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Her ongoing research is part of a broader project on singulatives, in which the investigation not only focuses on the morphology of singulatives but also their semantics and usage cross-linguistically.
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She co-taught a course about the history, languages, cultures and geopolitics of The Horn of Africa as well as a course about Sociolinguistics.
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Keywords:
Grammatical number, Morphology, Typology, Singulative, African Linguistics
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