Contributors
ix – x
Preface
Stephen C. Levinson
xi – xvi
Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective
Bhuvana Narasimhan, Anetta Kopecka, Melissa F. Bowerman, Marianne Gullberg and Asifa Majid
1 – 18
Part I. Lexical semantics
The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai
Niclas Burenhult
21 – 36
“She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding and categorizing placement events in Mandarin
Jidong Chen
37 – 54
To ‘put’ or to ‘take’?: Verb semantics in Tzeltal placement and removal expressions
Penelope Brown
55 – 78
The encoding of placement and removal events in Ākhoe Haiom
Christian J. Rapold
79 – 98
The semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan Arabic
Nadi Nouaouri
99 – 122
Placement and removal events in Basque and Spanish
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
123 – 144
On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh
Raphael Berthele
145 – 166
Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish
Marianne Gullberg and Niclas Burenhult
167 – 182
The semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement events
Attila Andics
183 – 200
Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi
Bhuvana Narasimhan
201 – 230
Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking
Alice Gaby
233 – 252
The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of Source and Goal revisited
Miyuki Ishibashi
253 – 272
Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
Stephen C. Levinson and Penelope Brown
273 – 296
Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O’Connor
297 – 326
Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in Polish
Anetta Kopecka
327 – 348
How to put and take in Kalasha
Jan Heegård Petersen
349 – 366
Language index
367 – 368
Subject index
369 – 372
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