The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by Mengistu Amberber
[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.
Mengistu Amberber
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mengistu Amberber plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
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
2008 4. Semantic primes in Amharic Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Goddard, Cliff (ed.), pp. 83–119 | Article
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
2007 1. Introduction: The language of memory The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, Amberber, Mengistu (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
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