The language of memory in a crosslinguistic perspective / edited by Mengistu Amberber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amberber, Mengistu, 1961-

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 21.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper provides a brief grammatical overview of a number of constructions based on verbs of memory in Amharic. We show that the same verb can mean 'x remember y' or 'x remind y' depending on the syntactic context. Remember is a subject-experiencer predicate, in that the experiencer is mapped on to subject position. The subject pronominal suffix on the verb agrees with the experiencer argument. In the case of 'remind', the experiencer is mapped onto object position and agrees with an optional object pronominal suffix on the verb.

Contents:

The language of memory / Mengistur Amberber

Is "remember" a universal human concept? / Anna Wierzbicka

Language, memory, and concepts of memory / John Sutton

Standing up your mind / Nicholas Evans

The conceptualisation of remembering and forgetting in Russian / Anna A. Zalizniak

A "lexicographic portrait" of forgetting / Cliff Goddard

'Memorisation', learning and cultural cognition / Zhengdao Ye

A corpus-based analysis of German (sich) erinnern / Andrea C. Schalley and Sandra Kuhn

"Do you remember where you put the key?" / Kjung-Joo Yoon

The language of memory in East Cree / Marie-Odile Junker

Remember, remind, and forget in Amharic / Mengistu Amberber.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152450

9781282152458

1282152459

9789027291790

9027291799

OCLC:

647685065