New Benjamins title - Newman: The linguistics of Eating and Drinking

[Paul Peranteau]

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking

Edited by John Newman
University of Alberta

<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=TSL>Typological 
Studies in Language 84

2009. xii, 280 pp.

Hardbound  978 90 272 2998 4 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
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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 constructions involving 'eat' and 'drink' 
in some languages. The two verbs are also sources for a large number 
of figurative uses across languages with meanings such as 'destroy', 
and 'savour', as well as participating in a great variety of idioms 
which can be quite opaque semantically. Grammaticalized extensions of 
these predicates also occur, such as the quantificational use of 
Hausa shaa 'drink' meaning (roughly) 'do X frequently, regularly'. 
Specialists discuss details of the use of these verbs in a variety of 
languages and language families: Australian languages, Papuan 
languages, Athapaskan languages, Japanese, Korean, Hausa, Amharic, 
Hindi-Urdu, and Marathi.


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Table of contents

Preface
vii–xii
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=927121391>A 
cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'
John Newman
1–26
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=352121392>How 
transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs?
Åshild Næss
27–43
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=517121393>Quirky 
alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates
Mengistu Amberber
45–63
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=826121394>All 
people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are 
universal human concepts?
Anna Wierzbicka
65–89
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=238121395>'Eating', 
'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in Manambu
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
91–108
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=427121396>Athapaskan 
eating and drinking verbs and constructions
Sally Rice
109–152
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=691121397>The 
semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways
Peter Edwin Hook and Prashant Pardeshi
153–172
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=861121398>Literal 
and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink'
Toshiko Yamaguchi
173–193
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=17121399>What 
(not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean
Jae Jung Song
195–227
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=310121400>Metaphorical 
extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa
Philip J. Jaggar and Malami Buba
229–251
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=800121401>Amharic 
'eat' and 'drink' verbs
John Newman and Daniel Aberra
253–271
Author index
273–275
Language index
277–278
Subject index
279–280


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"This volume is the third in a set edited by John Newman exploring 
the conceptualizations of basic and universal human activities such 
as giving; sitting, standing and lying; and eating and drinking, and 
the effects they have on language development: how they are coded, 
and what sorts of metaphorically-based grammaticalizations develop 
from the forms used to code these activities. This work is important 
in that it looks at fine details of structure and conceptualization 
in several languages not often covered in standard grammars, and adds 
greatly to the literature on ethnosyntax, that is, literature 
establishing the connections among cognition, social behaviour, and 
linguistic structure. In that it will be of value not only to 
linguists, but to anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists as well."
Randy J. LaPolla, La Trobe University


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