Events of putting and taking : a crosslinguistic perspective /

Events of putting and taking : a crosslinguistic perspective /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (387 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Typological studies in language ; 100 Typological studies in language ; 100.
Subject:	Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb. Typology (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb. Semantics. Typology (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150360

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Other authors / contributors:	Kopecka, Anetta. Narasimhan, Bhuvana.
ISBN:	9789027275004 9027275009 1283549050 9781283549059 9027206813 9789027206817 9027275009 9789027206817
Notes:	5.3 Inserting/extracting:?ga 'insert'/u-?ui 'take out' (take-out). Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Kopecka, Anetta. Events of Putting and Taking : A crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2012 9789027206817

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Contributors
2. Preface
3. Putting and taking events
4. Part I. Lexical semantics
5. The\linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai
6. "She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box"
7. To `put' or to `take'?
8. The\encoding of placement and removal events in A'khoe Haiom
9. The\semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan Arabic
10. Placement and removal events in Basque and Spanish
11. On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh
12. Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish
13. The\semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement events
14. Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi
15. Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
16. The\Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking
17. The\expression of `putting' and `taking' events in Japanese
18. Put and Take in Yeli Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
19. Take it up, down, and away
20. Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in Polish
21. How to put and take in Kalasha
22. Language index
23. Subject index