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Amberber, Mengistu. 2003. The grammatical encoding of "thinking" in Amharic. Cognitive Linguistics 14 (2/3) : 195–219. 25 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Abstract
The lexical exponents of the conceptual primitives THINK and KNOW in Amharic are 'assabg' and 'awwak'a', respectively. The article investigates issues of polysemy involving the two mental predicates and explores their lexical elaboration and morphosyntactic realization. The article also briefly examines constructions based on verbs equivalent to the English term 'understand'.
(Mengistu Amberber)