By Dr Mengistu Amberber

Books

Amberber M, 2002, Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic, Lincom Europa, Munich

Book Chapters

Ourang M; Amberber M; Deligianni E, 2025, 'The derivation of the light verb construction in Aheli', in Fleischhauer J; Riccio A (ed.), Light Verb Constructions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, De Gruyter, pp. 63 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783112229330-003

Amberber M, 2024, 'The Amharic Converb in clause chaining', in Sarvasy H; Aikhenvald A (ed.), Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 739 - 761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870319.001.0001

Amberber M, 2024, 'Applicativization in Amharic', in Zuniga F; Creissels D (ed.), Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, Boston, pp. 243 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110730951-009

Amberber M, 2023, 'Amharic', in Meyer R; Wakjira B; Leyew Z (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, pp. 414 - 442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728542.013.21

Amberber M, 2020, 'The Conceptual Semantics of Alienable Possession in Amharic', in Mullan K; Peeters B; Sadow L (ed.), Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic Analysis, Springer, Singapore, pp. 207 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9983-2

Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M, 2010, 'Preface', in Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M (ed.), Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure, Cambridge University Press, pp. 8 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712234.001

Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M, 2010, 'Introduction: Complex Predicates', in Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M (ed.), Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic perspectives on Event Structure., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 12

Amberber M, 2010, 'The Structure of the Light Verb Construction in Amharic', in Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M (ed.), Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic perspectives on Event Structure., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 291 - 318

Amberber M, 2009, 'Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates', in Newman J (ed.), Linguistics of eating and drinking, John Benjamins, pp. 45 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.84

Amberber M, 2009, 'Differential Case Marking of Arguments in Amharic', in Malchukov A; Spencer A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Case, Oxford University Press, New York U.S., pp. 742 - 755

Amberber M, 2008, 'Semantic Primes in Amharic', in Goddard C (ed.), Cross-Linguistics Semantics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 83 - 119

Amberber M; Harvey M; Baker B, 2007, 'Complex predication and the coverb construction', in Siegel J; Lynch J; Eades D (ed.), Language Description. History and Development, John Benjamins Publshing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 209 - 221

Amberber M, 2007, 'Introduction: The language of memory', in Amberber M (ed.), The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 1 - 12

Amberber M, 2007, 'Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic', in Amberber M (ed.), The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 263 - 277

Amberber M; De Hoop H, 2005, 'Preface', in Amberber M; De Hoop H (ed.), Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case., pp. xi - xi, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044651-6/50002-1

Amberber M; de Hoop H, 2005, 'Competition and Variation in Natural Languages', in Amberber M; de Hoop H (ed.), Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044651-6/50003-3

Amberber M, 2005, 'Differential Subject Marking in Amharic', in Amberber M; Hoop HD (ed.), Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 295 - 319

Amberber M, 2002, 'Quirky Alterations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates', in Amberber M; Collins P (ed.), Language Universals and Variation, Praeger Publishers, Wesport Connecticut London, pp. 1 - 20

Amberber M, 2001, 'Testing emotional universals in Amharic', in Harkins J; Wierzbicka A (ed.), Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, pp. 35 - 68

Amberber M, 2000, 'Valency-changing and Valency-encoding Devices in Amharic', in Changing Valency - Case Studies in Transitivity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 312 - 331

Edited Books

Amberber M; Baker B; Harvey M, (eds.), 2010, Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic perspectives on Event Structure., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712234.001

Amberber M, (ed.), 2007, The language of memory in a cross-linguistic perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia

Amberber M; Collins P, (ed.), 2002, Language Universals and Variation, Praeger Publishers, Wesport Connecticut London

Journal articles

Amberber M, 2003, 'The grammatical encoding of `thinking` in Amharic', Cognitive Linguistics, 14, pp. 195 - 219

Amberber M, 1996, 'Wolf Leslau. Reference Grammar of Amharic [Book Review]', Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 41, pp. 258 - 260

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