Mengistu Amberber

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mengistu Amberber is involved.

Title

The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Edited by Mengistu Amberber

This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Amberber, Mengistu 2009 Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 45–63 | Article

This chapter shows that the cross-linguistically robust transitivity pattern exhibited by verbs of ingestion (eat, drink, swallow, taste, etc.) can be accounted for by appealing to a rich Lexical Conceptual Structure (LCS). The key claim is that ingestive predicates are ditransitive at the level of… read more

Amberber, Mengistu 2008 4. Semantic primes in Amharic Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Goddard, Cliff (ed.), pp. 83–119 | Article

Amberber, Mengistu 2007 11. Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, Amberber, Mengistu (ed.), pp. 263–277 | Article

This paper provides a brief grammatical overview of a number of constructions based on verbs of memory in Amharic. We show that the same verb can mean ‘x remember y’ or ‘x remind y’ depending on the syntactic context. Remember is a subject-experiencer predicate, in that the experiencer is mapped on… read more

Amberber, Mengistu 2007 1. Introduction: The language of memory The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, Amberber, Mengistu (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article

Amberber, Mengistu, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2007 16. Complex predication and the coverb construction Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 209–219 | Article