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Events of putting and taking : a crosslinguistic perspective / edited by Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 100.
- Typological studies in language, 0267-7373 ; v. 100
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (387 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Lexical semantics
- pt. 2. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613861504
- 9781283549059
- 1283549050
- 9789027275004
- 9027275009
- OCLC:
- 792688025
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