John Newman

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List of John Benjamins publications for which John Newman plays a role.

Titles

The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking

Edited by John Newman

[Typological Studies in Language, 84] 2009. xii, 280 pp.

Subjects Theoretical linguistics | Typology

The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying

Edited by John Newman

[Typological Studies in Language, 51] 2002. xii, 409 pp.

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Typology

The Linguistics of Giving

Edited by John Newman

[Typological Studies in Language, 36] 1998. xv, 384 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Typology

Articles (13) | Order by:

Newman, John and Ying Zhang 2024 Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article

Posture verbs have attracted considerable interest within Cognitive Linguistics. This study continues this line of research by investigating usage-based patterns associated with these verbs when used in their literal posture senses. The data for the study comes from the Lancaster Corpus of… read more

Newman, John and Dan Zhao 2023 Mandarin chī ‘eat’ sentences in elicitation and corpus data Chinese Language and Discourse 14:2, pp. 232–264 | Article

When collected methodically through elicitation experiments, invented examples prompted by a cue word provide evidence for how speakers think about that word. This study explores characteristics of Mandarin chī ‘eat’ sentences obtained through an elicitation experiment and SMS, newspaper, and… read more

Newman, John 2019 Bromhead. H. Landscape and culture: Cross-linguistic perspectives Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2, pp. 531–536 | Review

Newman, John 2015 Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Nolan, Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 295–325 | Article

This paper explores patterns of co-occurrence of selected subject pronouns (I, you, she, he) with past, present, and future tense uses of English verbs, with a focus on give, send, and bring. Statistically significant overuse and underuse of the subject pronouns are determined by reference to… read more

Newman, John 2009 A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink' The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 1–26 | Article

This chapter provides an overview of the range of linguistic properties associated with ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ verbs across languages and serves as an introduction to the whole volume. The chapter covers the lexicalization of these concepts and the syntax associated with ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ constructions.… read more

Newman, John 2009 English posture verbs: An experientially grounded approach Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 30–57 | Article

This paper considers a number of linguistic properties of English SIT, STAND, and LIE which are argued to be the cardinal posture verbs of English. The distinctiveness of just these three posture verbs is evidenced by their relatively high frequency within the class of posture verbs in English and… read more

Newman, John and Daniel Aberra 2009 Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 253–271 | Article

‘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… read more

Newman, John and Sally Rice 2008 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach Asymmetric Events, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 3–23 | Article

The English V and V construction provides an ideal opportunity to study asymmetry in the properties of the verbs which enter into each of the two verb slots of this construction. This paper explores the asymmetry evident in this construction by utilizing two corpora of spoken and written New… read more

Newman, John 2002 1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter

Newman, John and Toshiko Yamaguchi 2002 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 43–59 | Chapter

Newman, John 1998 Recipients and ‘give’ constructions The Dative: Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies, Van Langendonck, Willy and William Van Belle (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article

Newman, John 1998 The origin of the German es gibt construction The Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 307–326 | Article

Newman, John and Ying Zhang Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences Chinese Language and Discourse: Online-First Articles | Article