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Main description:This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a number of languages: Dutch; Korean; Japanese; Lao; Chantyal, Magar (Tibeto-Burman); Chipewyan (Athapaskan); Trumai (spoken in Brazil); Kxoe (Khoisan); Mbay (Nilo-Saharan); Oceanic; Enga, Ku Waru (Papuan); Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Ngan’gityemerri (Australian). The contributo...
Main description:
This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a number of languages: Dutch; Korean; Japanese; Lao; Chantyal, Magar (Tibeto-Burman); Chipewyan (Athapaskan); Trumai (spoken in Brazil); Kxoe (Khoisan); Mbay (Nilo-Saharan); Oceanic; Enga, Ku Waru (Papuan); Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Ngan’gityemerri (Australian). The contributors discuss data relevant to many fields of linguistic inquiry, including patterns of lexicalization (e.g., simplex or complex verb forms), morphology (e.g., state vs. action formations), grammaticalization (e.g., extension to locational predicates, aspect markers, auxiliaries, copulas, classifiers), and figurative extension. A final chapter reports on an experimental methodology designed to establish the relevant cognitive parameters underlying speakers’ judgements on the polysemy of English stand. Taken together, the chapters provide a wealth of cross-linguistic data on posture verbs.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’
- 2. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao
- 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English
- 4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan)
- 5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal
- 6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs
- 7. The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai
- 8. Men stand, women sit
- 9. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages
- 10. Sit right down the back
- 11. Posture verbs in Oceanic
- 12. The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe
- 13. Posture verbs in Mbay
- 14. The posture verbs in Korean
- 15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand
- Author index
- Language index
This volume explores properties of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a number of languages: Dutch; Korean; Japanese; Lao; Chantyal, Magar (Tibeto-Burman); Chipewyan (Athapaskan); Trumai (spoken in Brazil); Kxoe (Khoisan); Mbay (Nilo-Saharan); Oceanic; Enga, Ku Waru (Papuan); Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Ngan’gityemerri (Australian). The contributors discuss data relevant to many fields of linguistic inquiry, including patterns of lexicalization (e.g., simplex or complex verb forms), morphology (e.g., state vs. action formations), grammaticalization (e.g., extension to locational predicates, aspect markers, auxiliaries, copulas, classifiers), and figurative extension. A final chapter reports on an experimental methodology designed to establish the relevant cognitive parameters underlying speakers’ judgements on the polysemy of English stand. Taken together, the chapters provide a wealth of cross-linguistic data on posture verbs.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’
- 2. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao
- 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English
- 4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan)
- 5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal
- 6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs
- 7. The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai
- 8. Men stand, women sit
- 9. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages
- 10. Sit right down the back
- 11. Posture verbs in Oceanic
- 12. The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe
- 13. Posture verbs in Mbay
- 14. The posture verbs in Korean
- 15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand
- Author index
- Language index