In:Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language
Daniel R. Roush
[Figurative Thought and Language 4] 2018
► pp. 79–94
Chapter 5Obtaining
Understanding events in terms of bodies possessing objects
Published online: 28 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.4.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.4.c5
Article outline
- The Object Event-Structure Metaphor: An overview
- Attributes are possessions
- Attributes are possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Changes are movements of possessions
- Changes are movements of possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Causation is transfer of possessions
- Causation is transfer of possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Purposes are desired objects/achieving a purpose is acquiring a desired object
- Purposes are desired objects/achieving a purpose is acquiring desired object: Evidence from English and ASL
- Chapter summary
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