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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kopecka, Anetta, Narasimhan, Bhuvana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; 100.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:5.3 Inserting/extracting:?ga 'insert'/u-?ui 'take out' (take-out).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (387 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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