The linguistics of eating and drinking
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The linguistics of eating and drinking
（Typological studies in language, v. 84）
John Benjamins, c2009
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A cross-linguistic overview of "eat" and "drink"
All people eat and drink : does this mean that "eat" and "drink" are universal human concepts?
"Eating", "drinking" and "smoking"
Metaphorical extensions of "eat" (overcome) and "drink" (undergo) in Hausa
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- 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 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink' (by Newman, John)
- 3. How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs? (by Naess, Ashild)
- 4. Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates (by Amberber, Mengistu)
- 5. All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts? (by Wierzbicka, Anna)
- 6. 'Eating', 'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in Manambu (by Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.)
- 7. Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions (by Rice, Sally)
- 8. The semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways (by Hook, Peter Edwin)
- 9. Literal and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink' (by Yamaguchi, Toshiko)
- 10. What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean (by Song, Jae Jung)
- 11. Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa (by Jaggar, Philip J.)
- 12. Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs (by Newman, John)
- 13. Author index
- 14. Language index
- 15. Subject index
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