The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking
Editor
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 predicates also occur, such as the quantificational use of Hausa shaa 'drink’ meaning (roughly) ‘do X frequently, regularly’. Specialists discuss details of the use of these verbs in a variety of languages and language families: Australian languages, Papuan languages, Athapaskan languages, Japanese, Korean, Hausa, Amharic, Hindi-Urdu, and Marathi.
[Typological Studies in Language, 84] 2009. xii, 280 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–xii
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A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'John Newman | pp. 1–26
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How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs?Åshild Næss | pp. 27–43
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Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicatesMengistu Amberber | pp. 45–63
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All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts?Anna Wierzbicka | pp. 65–89
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'Eating', 'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in ManambuAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 91–108
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Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructionsSally Rice | pp. 109–152
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The semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and bywaysPeter Edwin Hook and Prashant Pardeshi | pp. 153–172
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Literal and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink'Toshiko Yamaguchi | pp. 173–193
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What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in KoreanJae Jung Song | pp. 195–227
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Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in HausaPhilip J. Jaggar and Malami Buba | pp. 229–251
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Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbsJohn Newman and Daniel Aberra | pp. 253–271
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Author index | pp. 273–275
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Language index | pp. 277–278
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Subject index | pp. 279–280
“This volume is the third in a set edited by John Newman exploring the conceptualizations of basic and universal human activities such as giving; sitting, standing and lying; and eating and drinking, and the effects they have on language development: how they are coded, and what sorts of metaphorically-based grammaticalizations develop from the forms used to code these activities. This work is important in that it looks at fine details of structure and conceptualization in several languages not often covered in standard grammars, and adds greatly to the literature on ethnosyntax, that is, literature establishing the connections among cognition, social behaviour, and linguistic structure. In that it will be of value not only to linguists, but to anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists as well.”
Randy J. LaPolla, La Trobe University
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BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General