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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971842203321

Titolo

Events of putting and taking : a crosslinguistic perspective / / edited by Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

9786613861504

9781283549059

1283549050

9789027275004

9027275009

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 p.)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0267-7373 ; ; v. 100

Classificazione

ET 400

Altri autori (Persone)

KopeckaAnetta

NarasimhanBhuvana

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Lexical semantics -- pt. 2. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events.

Sommario/riassunto

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and removal event descriptions from 18 areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages. Each chapter describes the lexical and grammatical means used to describe such events, and further investigates one of the following themes: syntax-semantics mappings, lexical semantics, and asymmetries in the encoding of placement versus removal events.