Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A cross-linguistic overview of 'eat' and 'drink' 1
5. How transitive are 'eat' and 'drink' verbs? 27
6. Quirky alternations of transitivity: The case of ingestive predicates 45
7. All people eat and drink. Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts? 65
8. 'Eating', 'drinking' and 'smoking': A generic verb and its semantics in Manambu 91
9. Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions 109
10. The semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways 153
11. Literal and figurative uses of Japanese 'eat' and 'drink' 173
12. What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean 195
13. Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa 229
14. Amharic 'eat' and 'drink' verbs 253
15. Author index 273
16. Language index 277
17. Subject index 279