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# Girma Halefom

Girma Halefom has 2 papers in our library, in 2011–2017, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Tommi Leung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tommi-leung/).

2 papers in our library · 2011–2017

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5019397098) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019397098) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019397098) · [12 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019397098&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/girma-halefom/#papers) · 🔗 1 citation in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4949](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4949)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Girma+Halefom) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Girma+Halefom) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Girma+Halefom) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Girma+Halefom)

## Topics

[Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leung-2017-theory-syntactic-representation-control-structures/) · [**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lumsden-2026-absence-raising-constructions-amharic/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[The theory and syntactic representation of control structures: An analysis from Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leung-2017-theory-syntactic-representation-control-structures/)** *(2017 · 5 citations)* The paper describes how control constructions (clauses like "wished to win") are built in Amharic and uses them to test competing theories of control.
2. **[On the Absence of Raising Constructions in Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lumsden-2026-absence-raising-constructions-amharic/)** *(2011)* Baye (1990) claimed that Amharic has raising, but only out of finite clauses and noun phrases. That would make it the reverse of English or French. Lumsden and Halefom argue against this claim. Their method is semantic rather than purely structural. With native-speaker informants, they check whether each proposed…

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Tommi Leung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tommi-leung/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).