Events of Putting and Taking
A crosslinguistic perspective
Editors
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. The chapters demonstrate considerable crosslinguistic variation in the encoding of this domain, as well as commonalities, e.g. in the semantic distinctions that recur across languages, and in the asymmetric treatment of placement versus removal events. This volume provides a significant contribution within the emerging field of semantic typology, and will be of interest to researchers interested in the language-cognition interface, including linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers.
[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. ix–x
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PrefaceStephen C. Levinson | pp. xi–xvi
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Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspectiveBhuvana Narasimhan, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg and Asifa Majid | pp. 1–18
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Part I. Lexical semantics
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The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in JahaiNiclas Burenhult | pp. 21–36
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“She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding and categorizing placement events in MandarinJidong Chen | pp. 37–54
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To ‘put’ or to ‘take’? Verb semantics in Tzeltal placement and removal expressionsPenelope Brown | pp. 55–78
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The encoding of placement and removal events in Ākhoe HaiomChristian J. Rapold | pp. 79–98
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The semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan ArabicNadi Nouaouri | pp. 99–122
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Placement and removal events in Basque and SpanishIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | pp. 123–144
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On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of RomanshRaphael Berthele | pp. 145–166
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Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in SwedishMarianne Gullberg and Niclas Burenhult | pp. 167–182
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The semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement eventsAttila Andics | pp. 183–200
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Putting and Taking in Tamil and HindiBhuvana Narasimhan | pp. 201–230
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Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
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The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and takingAlice Gaby | pp. 233–252
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The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of Source and Goal revisitedMiyuki Ishibashi | pp. 253–272
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Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel IslandStephen C. Levinson and Penelope Brown | pp. 273–296
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Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland ChontalLoretta O’Connor | pp. 297–326
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Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in PolishAnetta Kopecka | pp. 327–348
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How to put and take in KalashaJan Heegård Petersen | pp. 349–366
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Language index | pp. 367–368
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Subject index | pp. 369–372
“This volume on the Zapotec languages is an important contribution to the building of a solid typology of valence changes from languages which take a solid lexical stand on the phenomenon. This volume presents Zapotec morphology, for the first time, to a wide audience. This is a laudable achievement in its own right.”
Enrique L. Palancar, SeDyl, CNRS, in Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 6:1 (2016), pp. 124-127
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General