The linguistics of eating and drinking /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009. |
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| Description: | xii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Typological studies in language , 0167-7373 ; v. 84 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7644573 |
Table of Contents:
- -1. Prelim pages
- 0. Table of contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. A\cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'
- 3. How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs?
- 4. Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates
- 5. All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts?
- 6. 'Eating', 'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in Manambu
- 7. Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions
- 8. The\semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways
- 9. Literal and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink'
- 10. What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean
- 11. Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa
- 12. Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs
- 13. Author index
- 14. Language index
- 15. Subject index
