The grammar of eating and drinking verbs

Title: The grammar of eating and drinking verbs
Creator: Næss, Åhild
Relation: Language and Linguistics Compass Vol. 5, Issue 6, p. 413-423
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00279.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: Verbs referring to acts of eating and drinking show a crosslinguistic tendency to behave in ways which distinguish them from other verbs in a language. Specifically, they tend to pattern like intransitive verbs in certain respects, even though they appear to conform to the definition of ‘prototypical transitive verbs’. The explanations which have been suggested for this behaviour fall into two main categories: those referring to telicity or Aktionsart, and those referring to the fact that such verbs describe acts which have ‘affected agents’, i.e. they have an effect on their agent as well as on their patient participant. The latter observation has further led to reexaminations of the notion of transitivity in general.
Subject: verbs; linguistics; intransitive verbs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057832
Identifier: uon:16277
Identifier: ISSN:1749-818X
Language: eng
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