The linguistics of eating and drinking

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The linguistics of eating and drinking

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The linguistics of eating and drinking
2009, John Benjamins Pub. Co.
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Amsterdam, Philadelphia
Series
Typological studies in language -- v. 84

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Dewey Decimal Class
415
Library of Congress
P281 .L54 2009, P281.L54 2009

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p. cm.
Number of pages
280

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OL22658965M
Internet Archive
linguisticseatin00newm
ISBN 13
9789027229984
LCCN
2008045268
OCLC/WorldCat
262883761

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OL18354636W

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