Desalegn passed his defense with flying colors! Those of you who have not yet downloaded his thesis can do so at Munin. I warmly recommend it for anyone interested in the syntax of argument structure, the lexical semantics of verbs, the interplay between functional structure and roots or between lexical semantics and context, the splendours of Amharic verbal morphology, causatives, passives, middles, other Voices, or any of several related topics. At 380 pages it has something to offer everybody.
–Peter