The linguistics of eating and drinking / edited by John Newman.

This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages. The highly multifaceted nature of 'eat' and 'drink' events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Newman, John, 1948-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:	Typological studies in language ; v. 84.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb. Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax. Semantics.