The linguistics of eating and drinking

The linguistics of eating and drinking / edited by John Newman.

This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages. The highly multifaceted nature of 'eat' and 'drink' events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive...

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Other Authors: Newman, John, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 84.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax.
Semantics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates a cross-linguistic overview of eat and drink / John Newman
  • How transitive are EAT and DRINK verbs? / Åshild Næss
  • Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates / Mengistu Amberber
  • All people eat and drink: Does this mean that eat and drink are universal human concepts? / Anna Wierzbicka
  • Eating, drinking, and smoking : a generic verb and its semantics in Manambu / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions / Sally Rice
  • The semantic evolution of EAT-expressions: Ways and byways / Peter Edwin Hook & Prashant Pardeshi
  • Literal and figurative uses of Japanese EAT and DRINK / Toshiko Yamaguchi
  • What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean / Jae Jung Song
  • Metaphorical extensions of eat . [overcome] and drink¿. [undergo] in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar & Malami Buba
  • Amharic eat and drink verbs / John Newman & Daniel Aberra.

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