The linguistics of eating and drinking / edited by John Newman.
| Other author | Newman, John, 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., |
| Description | xii, 280 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 84 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008045268 |
| ISBN | 9789027229984 (hb : alk. paper) |
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