Firew Worku
Firew Girma Worku is a linguist and researcher who is currently working on the grammatical description and documentation of undescribed and undocumented languages spoken in the Lower Omo Valley area of the South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia. He received his PhD in Linguistics from James Cook University, Australia, in 2020. Currently he is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at James Cook University. He is an experienced linguist with a strong background in typology, language description and documentation, linguistics anthropology.He specialises in East African languages, particularly in Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia. Firew has extensive experience conducting fieldwork in the Lower Omo Valley areas of Ethiopia. He is always interested to undertake the task of carefully describing the vanishing and endangered African languages.
Firew also has a long record of teaching and research activities in four universities of Ethiopia and he has mentored several students during his work as a teacher. He has organised and co-organised several academic events such as the East African Summer School in Language Documentation which took place in Addis Ababa University and it was sponsored by Leiden University, Cologne University and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Recent publications:
Worku, Firew Girma and Sisay, Binyam (forthcoming). Number System in Arbore. Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Vol. 11, Yamaguchi University. Yamaguchi, Japan.
Worku, Firew Girma (2022). Possessive Construction in Mursi. Journal of Culture and Language Studies,Vol.1, No.1: 49-68.
Worku, Firew Girma (2021). A Grammar of Mursi: A Nilo-Saharan Language of Ethiopia. Brill: Leiden.
Worku, Firew Girma and Cheru, Selassie (2020). Language use survey in Dawro and Wolayita Zones, in Gofa speaking Woredas and Konta Special Woreda. Language use, its social aspect in
Ethiopia and National and International Language Policy Experiences. Ministry of Culture and Tourism of The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. (219-244) (ISBN 978-9994-78-95-8).