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Events of Putting and Taking. A crosslinguistic perspective.

Authors :
KOPECKA, Anetta and Bhuvana NARASIMHAN (eds.)
KOPECKA, Anetta and Bhuvana NARASIMHAN (eds.)
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

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. The chapters demonstrate considerable crosslinguistic variation in the encoding of this domain, as well as commonalities, e.g. in the semantic distinctions that recur across languages, and in the asymmetric treatment of placement versus removal events. This volume provides a significant contribution within the emerging field of semantic typology, and will be of interest to researchers interested in the language-cognition interface, including linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9789027206817 and 9789027275004
Volume :
00100
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
Events of Putting and Taking. A crosslinguistic perspective.
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
450980