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Fields of Research (FoR)
Linguistics, Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax), Language studies, African languagesBiography
Dr Mengistu Amberber is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics (FASS). His main research interests include lexical semantics, grammatical theory, the semantics-syntax interface, and linguistic typology.
He is the author of Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic (Lincom Studies in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, 2002), and editor of The Language of Memory in a Cross-linguistic Perspective (in Human Cognitive...view more
Dr Mengistu Amberber is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics (FASS). His main research interests include lexical semantics, grammatical theory, the semantics-syntax interface, and linguistic typology.
He is the author of Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic (Lincom Studies in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, 2002), and editor of The Language of Memory in a Cross-linguistic Perspective (in Human Cognitive Processing, volume 21, John Benjamins, 2007), and co-editor of: Language Universals and Variation (Praeger, 2002), Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: the Case for Case (Elsevier, 2005), and Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
My Qualifications
BA MA (Addis Ababa), PhD (McGill)
My Teaching
COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT
(I) Undergraduate:
The Structure of Language
The Use of Language
Generative Grammar
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Phonology
(II) Postgraduate:
Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Bilingualism
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Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7161-7177
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FASS - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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