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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb; Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphosyntax; Semantics
• Classificazione: ES 360
• Altri autori: NewmanJohn <1948->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Eat' and 'drink' verbs in Amharic (Semitic) have a number of interesting linguistic properties. The basic morphosyntactic properties of these verbs in Amharic are reviewed, including the unusual patterning of these verbs in causative constructions, as remarked upon by Amberber (this volume) and others. Figurative extensions of the two verbs are prolific and an attempt is made to give a coherent account of these extensions drawing upon ideas from Newman's (1997) account of the English eat and drink extensions. In particular, it proves useful to distinguish figurative extensions based on the sensation of the consumer from figurative extensions based on the image of destruction or disappearance of the consumed entity. These two separate aspects of ingestive acts inform both the account of the figurative extensions of Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' as well as the morphosyntax associated with these verbs.
• Titolo autorizzato: The linguistics of eating and drinking
• ISBN: 9786612105036; 9781282105034; 1282105035; 9789027290151; 9027290156
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969636803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Typological studies in language ; ; v. 84.