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11. Posture verbs in Oceanic

  • Frank Lichtenberk✝
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The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
This chapter is in the book The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
© 2002 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2002 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. 1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ 1
  5. 2. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao 25
  6. 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English 43
  7. 4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan) 61
  8. 5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 79
  9. 6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs 103
  10. 7. The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai 141
  11. 8. Men stand, women sit 179
  12. 9. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages 213
  13. 10. Sit right down the back 239
  14. 11. Posture verbs in Oceanic 269
  15. 12. The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe 315
  16. 13. Posture verbs in Mbay 333
  17. 14. The posture verbs in Korean 359
  18. 15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand 387
  19. Author index 401
  20. Language index 403
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.51.12lic

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. 1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ 1
  5. 2. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao 25
  6. 3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English 43
  7. 4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan) 61
  8. 5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 79
  9. 6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs 103
  10. 7. The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai 141
  11. 8. Men stand, women sit 179
  12. 9. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages 213
  13. 10. Sit right down the back 239
  14. 11. Posture verbs in Oceanic 269
  15. 12. The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe 315
  16. 13. Posture verbs in Mbay 333
  17. 14. The posture verbs in Korean 359
  18. 15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand 387
  19. Author index 401
  20. Language index 403
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