How to put and take in Kalasha

Petersen, Jan Heegård

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How to put and take in Kalasha

Petersen, J. H. (2012). How to put and take in Kalasha. In A. Kopecka, & B. Narasimhan (Eds.), Events of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective (pp. 349-366). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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Petersen, Jan Heegård^{1, 2}, Author

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1University of Copenhagen, ou_persistent22
2Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55211

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Abstract: In Kalasha, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Northwest Pakistan, the linguistic encoding of ‘put’ and ‘take’ events reveals a symmetry between lexical ‘put’ and ‘take’ verbs that implies ‘placement on’ and ‘removal from’ a supporting surface. As regards ‘placement in’ and ‘removal from’ an enclosure, the data reveal a lexical asymmetry as ‘take’ verbs display a larger degree of linguistic elaboration of the Figure-Ground relation and the type of caused motion than ‘put’ verbs. When considering syntactic patterns, more instances of asymmetry between these two event types show up. The analysis presented here supports the proposal that an asymmetry exists in the encoding of goals versus sources as suggested in Nam (2004) and Ikegami (1987), but it calls into question the statement put forward by Regier and Zheng (2007) that endpoints (goals) are more finely differentiated semantically than starting points (sources).

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Language(s): eng - English

Dates: Submitted: 2008Accepted: 2011Date issued: 2012

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Title: Events of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

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Kopecka, Anetta, Editor
Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Editor

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Publ. Info: Amsterdam : Benjamins

Pages: - Volume / Issue: - Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 349 - 366 Identifier: ISBN: 978 90 272 0681 7