The language of memory in a crosslinguistic perspective

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 exper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Amberber, Mengistu, 1961- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co c2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 21.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798375206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.