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Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspectiveEdited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan
[Typological Studies in Language 100] 2012
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan
[Typological Studies in Language 100] 2012
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Contributors
Preface
Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective
Part I. Lexical semantics
The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai
“She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding and categorizing placement events in Mandarin
To ‘put’ or to ‘take’? Verb semantics in Tzeltal placement and removal expressions
The encoding of placement and removal events in Ākhoe Haiom
The semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan Arabic
Placement and removal events in Basque and Spanish
On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh
Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish
The semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement events
Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi
Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking
The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of Source and Goal revisited
Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland Chontal
Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in Polish
How to put and take in Kalasha
Language index
Subject index
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