Events of Putting and Taking

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A crosslinguistic perspective

Anetta Kopecka Bhuvana Narasimhan(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 9. Mai 2012

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Events of Putting and Taking
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Contributors
Preface
References
Putting and taking events
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 Materials
2.2 Procedure
3. Placement and removal across languages
3.1 Syntax-semantics mappings
3.2 Lexical semantics
3.3 (A)symmetries in the encoding of placement vs. removal
4. Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
Part I. Lexical semantics
The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai
1. Introduction
2. Structural preliminaries
3. The form and function of descriptions
3.1 Structural characteristics
3.2 Mapping of roles and syntactic constituents
3.3 Structural and functional variation in the third phrase
3.4 Structural and functional aspects of the placement/removal distinction
4. The verbs
4.1 Putting and taking
4.2 Inserting and extracting
4.3 Dressing and undressing
4.4 Placing and retracting one's own body parts
4.5 Other distinctions
5. Summary and conclusions
References
Orthography and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
"She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box"
1. Introduction
2. Encoding placement events in Mandarin
3. Lexical semantics of placement verbs
3.1 Productivity and the semantic composition of directional verb compounds
3.2 Path verbs: V2 and V3 of the directional verb compound
3.3 Verbs expressing manipulation: V1 of the directional verb compounds
3.4 Verbs encoding Path as the V1 of the directional compounds
3.5 Summary
4. Conclusion
References
To 'put' or to 'take'?
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Linguistic resources for placement events in Tzeltal
3.1 Predicating placement events in Tzeltal
3.2 Constructions used to describe placement events
4. Verb semantics: Specific or general?
4.1 Verbs used to describe placement and removal events
4.2 Verb frequency: 'put' vs. 'take'
4.3 Semantic specificity in verbs for 'put' vs. 'take'
4.4 The significance of 'put' vs. 'take' asymmetry
5. Conclusions
References
Appendix
The encoding of placement and removal events in A¯khoe Hai om
1. Introduction
2. Morphosyntax of placement and removal constructions
2.1 General aspects of A¯khoe Hai om morphosyntax
2.2 Information packaging in placement and removal constructions
2.3 Morphology of complex placement and removal verbs
3. Major placement/removal situation types and their verbal expression
3.1 Giving/taking away
3.2 Dressing/undressing
3.3 Inserting/extracting
3.4 Putting/taking
4. Lexical variation in event descriptions
5. Semantics and distribution of main placement/removal verbs
5.1 Giving/taking away: ma^ 'give'/u 'take'
5.2 Dressing/undressing: │gapa 'put on (headgear)', ana 'put on (garment, etc.)', haro 'put on (footwear)'/u- na 'take down', hu^ 'take off (garment, footwear, etc.)'
5.3 Inserting/extracting: ga 'insert'/u- ui 'take out' (take-out)
5.4 Putting/taking: ma^i 'put' (stand.caus)', gui 'put' (lie.down.caus)', nu^i 'put' (sit.down.caus)'/u 'take' (u- na^ 'take down', (take.down), u¯-kha^i 'take up' (take-rise))
6. Summary and conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Appendix I
Appendix II
The semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan Arabic
1. Introduction
2. The language and the data
3. The expression of 'put' and 'take' events
3.1 General features
3.2 Source-oriented predicates
3.3 Goal-oriented predicates
3.4 Combination of Ground phrases and predicates and their frequency
4. The lexical semantics of 'put' and 'take' verbs
4.1 Goal-oriented predicates
4.2 Versatile predicates
4.3 Source-oriented predicates
5. Conclusion
References
Abbreviations
Placement and removal events in Basque and Spanish
1. Introduction
2. Linguistic resources for the expression of placement and removal events
2.1 Basque placement/removal construction
2.2 Spanish placement/removal construction
3. How placement/removal events are described and conceptualised in Basque and Spanish
3.1 The use of linguistic resources
3.2 Some notes on the conceptualisation of these events: Path, agency, intentionality and force
4. Conclusions
References
On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh
1. Introduction
2. Languages and informants
3. Hypotheses and theoretical assumptions
4. The German and Sursilvan systems
5. The German component of the bilingual system
6. Conclusions
References
Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish
1. Introduction
2. Method and data
3. The form and function of descriptions
3.1 Structural characteristics
3.2 Mapping of semantic roles and syntactic constituents
3.3 Structural and functional aspects of the placement/removal distinction
4. The semantics of placement and removal descriptions
4.1 The general distinction between placement and removal
4.2 Ground as part of agent's body-dressing/undressing events
4.3 Containment - Inserting and extracting events
4.4 Support - posture and functional base
5. Discussion and conclusions
References
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
The semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement events
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Structural characteristics and relevant lexical devices
4. Semantic analysis of verbs
4.1 Results
4.2 Semantic parameters underlying verb choices
5. Summary and conclusions
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
References
Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi
1. Introduction
2. Data-collection
3. Encoding placement and removal events in Hindi and Tamil
4. Placement and removal verbs in Hindi and Tamil
5. General placement verbs in Hindi and Tamil
6. General removal verbs in Hindi and Tamil
7. Use of source and goal expressions with the general placement and removal verbs
7.1 Hindi
7.2 Tamil
8. Summary and conclusions
References
Glossing conventions
Appendix
Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking
1. Introduction
1.1 The language and its speakers
1.2 Encoding putting and taking events
2. Lexical semantics in the put/take domain
2.1 Goal-oriented verbs
2.2 Source-oriented verbs
2.3 Ambivalent verbs
2.3.1 Pormpo 'pour'
3. Asymmetries in lexical and grammatical encoding
3.1 Lexical semantics
3.2 Frequency of combination with Ground NP
4. Conclusion
References
The expression of 'putting' and 'taking' events in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Different treatments of the Path
2.1 (C)overt expression of the Path
2.2 (A)symmetrical expression of source and goal
3. Method
4. The expression of 'putting' and 'taking' events in Japanese
4.1 Word order and case marking
4.2 Semantic congruence between the verb and the Path NP
4.3 Three types of predicate
5. Multiple asymmetries
5.1 Asymmetry 1: Non motion and Source
5.2 Asymmetry 2: More overt expression of Goal than of Source
5.3 Asymmetry 3: Source expressed with case vs. with a relative clause
5.4 Asymmetry 4: Complex verbs and source
5.5 Summary: Source is more complex than Goal
6. Further asymmetry in the expression of Source
6.1 Impact of support/containment on the expression of Source
6.2 Source in the description of the containment-relation
6.3 Summary: Nesting of asymmetry
7. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Appendix : List of verbs used in the Japanese data
Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
1. 'Put' and 'Take' verbs - the theoretical resonance
2. The language
3. The six core verbs for expressing PUT and TAKE
4. Notes on the argument structure and syntax of the core PUT and TAKE verbs
5. Pragmatic pre-emption: The six core PUT and TAKE verbs vs. more specific verbs
5.1 More specific verbs of insertion and extraction
5.2 Pre-emption and variability across speakers
5. Summary and conclusions
References
Take it up, down, and away
Introduction
1. Linguistic resources
1.1 Predicate types of placement and removal verbs
1.2 Distribution of spatial semantics
1.3 Impact of rhetorical style and event segmentation
2. The encoding of support and containment
2.1 Caused motion to and from 'support'
2.2 Caused motion to and from 'containment'
2.3 Force and intention - placing, tossing, dropping, spilling
3. Beyond support and containment
3.1 Attachment - sticking and "unsticking"
3.2 Clothing - donning and doffing
3.3 Giving and taking in human interaction
4. Conclusions
Abbreviations, glossing, and orthographic conventions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in Polish
1. Introduction
2. Spatial semantics of placement and removal expressions in Polish
3. Verbs in placement and removal expressions
3.1 Verbs in placement expressions
3.2 Verbs in removal expressions
3.3 Summary
4. The encoding of Paths and Grounds
4.1 Placement in Goal location
4.2 Removal from Source location
4.3 Summary
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
How to put and take in Kalasha
1. Introduction
2. The language, the data and the informants
3. The syntax of caused motion in Kalasha
3.1 The morpho-syntax of goal and source phrases
3.2 Complex events and the conjunctive participle construction
4. 'Put' events in Kalasha
4.1 General 'put' verbs and surface-enclosure distinction
4.2 Specific 'put' verbs
5. 'Take' events in Kalasha
5.1 General 'take' verbs
5.2 Specific 'take' verbs
6. Spatial case marking and types of goals and sources
6.1 Locative case marking: Certain and uncertain location
6.2 Ablative case marking
7. The directional postposition kái and 'put' events
8. Lexical and grammatical asymmetries
8.1 Lexical variation in the coding of 'put' and 'take' events
8.2 Expressing goal and source
9. Summary
10. Perspectives
Abbreviations
References
Language index
Subject index

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