The linguistics of eating and drinking
By: edited by John Newman.
Contributors: Newman, John, 1948-
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 84
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789027229984
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax; Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates a cross-linguistic overview of eat and drink / John Newman; title: How transitive are EAT and DRINK verbs? / Åshild Næss; title: Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates / Mengistu Amberber; title: All people eat and drink: Does this mean that eat and drink are universal human concepts?  / Anna Wierzbicka; title: Eating , drinking, and smoking : a generic verb and its semantics in Manambu  / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; title: Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions / Sally Rice; title: The semantic evolution of EAT-expressions: Ways and byways / Peter Edwin Hook & Prashant Pardeshi; title: Literal and figurative uses of Japanese EAT and DRINK  / Toshiko Yamaguchi; title: What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean / Jae Jung Song; title: Metaphorical extensions of eat . [overcome] and drink¿. [undergo] in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar & Malami Buba; title: Amharic eat and drink verbs / John Newman & Daniel Aberra.