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

Other author Newman, John, 1948-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Descriptionxii, 280 p. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesTypological 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.
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ISBN9789027229984 (hb : alk. paper)

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