Dr Mengistu Amberber

Teaching

COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT

(I) Undergraduate:

The Structure of Language
The Use of Language
Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics
Generative Grammar
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Phonology

(II) Postgraduate:

Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Bilingualism

Publications

Some recent publications

BOOKS

Amberber, M., Baker, B. and Harvey, M. (eds.) 2010. Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Amberber, M. (ed.) 2007. The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

Amberber, M. and de Hoop, H. (eds.) 2005. Competition and Variation in Natural languages: the case for case. Amsterdam, Elsevier.

Amberber, M. and Collins, P. (eds.) 2002. Language Universals and Variation, Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger.

Amberber, M. 2002. Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic, (Lincom Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 06.) Munich: Lincom Europa.


BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Amberber, M. 2010. The Structure of the Light Verb Construction in Amharic, In M. Amberber, B. Baker, and M. Harvey (eds.) Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Amberber, M. 2008. Semantic primes in Amharic, In C. Goddard (ed.) Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. 83-119.

Amberber, M., Baker, B., Harvey, M. 2007. Complex predication and the coverb construction, in J. Siegel, J. Lynch, and D. Eades (eds.) Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 209-219.

Amberber, M. 2005. Differential Subject Marking in Amharic, in M. Amberber and H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case. Elsevier, London. 295-319.

Amberber, M. 2003. The grammatical encoding of thinking in Amharic. Cognitive Linguistics, 14:2/3, 195-219.

Amberber, M. 2002. Quirky alternations of transitivity: the case of ingestive predicates. In M. Amberber and P. Collins, (eds.), Language Universals and Variation, 1-20. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger.

Amberber, M. 2001. Testing emotional universals in Amharic. In J. Harkins and A. Wierzbicka (eds.), Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective, 39-72. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Amberber, M. 2000. Valency-changing and valency-encoding devices in Amharic. In R.M.W. Dixon and A.Y. Aikhenvald, eds., Changing Valency: Case Studies In Transitivity, 312-332. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Amberber, M. 1997. The unergative-unaccusative distinction and the benefactive applicative in Amharic. In A. Bailey, K.E. Moore, and J.L. Moxley (eds Berkeley Linguistic Society, (Special Session on Africa), 1-13.

Amberber, M. 1996. The transitivity of verbs of ‘Saying’ revisited. In J. Camacho, L. Choueiri, & M. Watanabe (eds.), The Proceedings of the Fourteenth West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1-15.

Amberber, M. 1995. Functional verbs and predicate formation: event-type hierarchy and grammaticization. In J. Ahlers, L. Bilmes et. al, (eds.), Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1-11.

Interests

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Australian Linguistic Society;
Linguistic Society of America