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​