Events of putting and taking : a crosslinguistic perspective /
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, gene...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
100. |
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| Online Access: |
Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | 5.3 Inserting/extracting:?ga 'insert'/u-?ui 'take out' (take-out). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (387 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275004 9027275009 1283549050 9781283549059 9027206813 9789027206817 9786613861504 6613861502 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |