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Publication details [#8296]
Newman, John. 2009. The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking (Typological Studies in language 84). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. xii, 280 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Amharic (Semitic language) | Athapaskan languages, North America | Australian languages | cognitive linguistics | drinking | eating | grammaticalization | Hausa | Hindi-Urdu | ingestive predicate | Korean | language typology | Marathi | metaphor | metaphorical extension | Papuan languages | quantification | transitive construc | verb of destruction | verb of savouring
ISBN
9027229984
Abstract
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.
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