How transitive are EAT and DRINK verbs?

Title: How transitive are EAT and DRINK verbs?
Creator: Næss, Åshild
Relation: The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking p. 27-43
Relation: Typological Studies in Language 84
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.84.03nae
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: This paper examines the transitivity properties of eat and drink verbs crosslinguistically, and shows that they tend not to pattern with prototypical transitive verbs, but show various properties characteristic of intransitives. This is explained in terms of the transitivity model developed in Næss (2007), where a prototypical transitive clause is defined as a clause showing maximal semantic distinction between the agent and patient in terms of their role in the event. A core semantic characteristic of eat and drink verbs is having an affected agent: eating and drinking are acts performed by an agent in order to achieve an effect on himself. Since affected agents are not maximally semantically distinct from patients, eat and drink verbs are not prototypically transitive.
Subject: verbs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057826
Identifier: uon:16281
Identifier: ISBN: 9789027290151
Language: eng

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