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The Linguistics of Eating and DrinkingEdited by John Newman
[Typological Studies in Language 84] 2009
► pp. v–vi
Edited by John Newman
[Typological Studies in Language 84] 2009
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Preface
A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink'
How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs?
Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates
All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts?
'Eating', 'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in Manambu
Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions
The semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways
Literal and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink'
What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean
Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa
Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs
Author index
Language index
Subject index
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