Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xi
5. Putting and taking events 1
6. Part I. Lexical semantics
7. The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai 21
8. “She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box” 37
9. To ‘put’ or to ‘take’? 55
10. The encoding of placement and removal events in ǂĀkhoe Haiǁom 79
11. The semantics of placement and removal predicates in Moroccan Arabic 99
12. Placement and removal events in Basque and Spanish 123
13. On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh 145
14. Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish 167
15. The semantic role of agentive control in Hungarian placement events 183
16. Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi 201
17. Part II. (A)symmetries in encoding placement vs. removal events
18. The Thaayorre lexicon of putting and taking 233
19. The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese 253
20. Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island 273
21. Take it up, down, and away 297
22. Semantic granularity of placement and removal expressions in Polish 327
23. How to put and take in Kalasha 349
24. Language index 367
25. Subject index 369