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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newman, John, 1948-

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 84.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612105036

9781282105034

1282105035

9789027290151

9027290156

OCLC:

316765757