Laura Łykowska
Laura Łykowska has 2 papers in our library, in 2000–2003, most of them on Semitic languages, Historical linguistics & language change.
OpenAlex · h-index 1 · 14 works · 6 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13015
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Fields, topics and concepts
📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work
🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 2 worksHistorical linguistics & language change · 1 work
Works by year
2000s
Papers
- The verb ‘to have’ in Amharic (2000 · 1 citation)
Łykowska tackles a gap she ran into while building sentence schemata for Amharic. Those schemata are centred on verbs and needed a verb meaning 'to have', yet grammars describe Amharic as having only a possessive construction built on allé 'is'. In that construction the verb agrees with the possessed item and a… - Grammaticalization of the Amharic tense system (2003)
Łykowska examines how the tense, aspect and modality (TAM) system of Amharic came about through grammaticalization.
Venues
- Studies in African Languages and Cultures ×2: Studies in African Languages and Cultures 2003, Studies in African Languages and Cultures 2000
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