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The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting, and Lying Book

The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting, and Lying
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The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting, and Lying, This volume explores properties of 'sit', 'stand', and 'lie' verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These direc, The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting, and Lying
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  • The Linguistics of Standing, Sitting, and Lying
  • Written by author John Newman
  • Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2002/11/01
  • This volume explores properties of 'sit', 'stand', and 'lie' verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These direc
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Preface
1 A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs 'sit', 'stand', and 'lie' 1
2 Semantics and combinatorics of 'sit', 'stand', and 'lie' in Lao 25
3 Action and state interpretations of 'sit' in Japanese and English 43
4 Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suline (Chipewyan): Lexical and semantic density as a function of the 'stand'/'sit'/'lie' continuum 61
5 Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 79
6 The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs 103
7 The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai 141
8 Men stand, women sit: On the grammaticalization of posture verbs in Papuan languages, its bodily basis and cultural correlates 179
9 Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages 213
10 Sit right down the back: Serialized posture verbs in Ngan'gityemerri and other Northern Australian languages 239
11 Posture verbs in Oceanic 269
12 The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe 315
13 Posture verbs in Mbay 333
14 The posture verbs in Korean: Basic and extended uses 359
15 Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand 387
Author index 401
Language index 403
Subject index 406


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