Academic profile | Rahel T. Dires
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Rahel T. Dires

Author, Freelancer and PhD candidate

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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 ebook Yael's Whimsical Quest: Heritage Uncovered, available on Amazon (Kindle), Google Books, Lulu and Kobo.

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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

Writing

Author 

Translator

Blogger

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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