New Benjamins title - Newman: The linguistics of Eating and Drinking
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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
viixii
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=927121391>A
cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'
John Newman
126
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=352121392>How
transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs?
Åshild Næss
2743
<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
4563
<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
6589
<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
91108
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=427121396>Athapaskan
eating and drinking verbs and constructions
Sally Rice
109152
<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
153172
<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
173193
<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
195227
<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
229251
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=TSL%2084&artid=800121401>Amharic
'eat' and 'drink' verbs
John Newman and Daniel Aberra
253271
Author index
273275
Language index
277278
Subject index
279280
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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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