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| Other authors / contributors: | Newman, John, 1948-
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| ISBN: | 9789027290151
9027290156
9027229988
9789027229984
9789027229984
1282105035
9781282105034
9786612105036
6612105038
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages. The highly multifaceted nature of 'eat' and 'drink' events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving 'eat' and 'drink' in some languages. The two verbs are also sources for a large number of figurative uses across languages with meanings such as 'destroy', and 'savour', as well as participating in a great variety of idioms which can be quite opaque semantically. Grammaticalized extensions of these.
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| Other form: | Print version: Linguistics of eating and drinking. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027229984 9027229988
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