Dr Mengistu Amberber
Senior Lecturer

Dr Mengistu Amberber

BA MA (Addis Ababa), PhD (McGill)

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

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).

Phone
9385 2299
Location
241 Morven Brown

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