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In:The Linguistics of Giving
Edited by John Newman
[Typological Studies in Language 36] 1998
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 February 1998

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Table of contents

Prefacevii

GIVE in Amele1

John R. Roberts

Giving in Nawatl35

Double object constructions in Zulu67

Giving and taking in Chipewyan: The semantics of THING-marking classificatory verbs97

Lots of ways to GIVE in Cora135

Eugene H. Casad

GIVE: Acts of giving in American Sign Language175

Phyllis Perrin Wilcox

Sochiapan Chinantec GIVE: A window into clause structure209

GIVE, HATE, and TAKE in Slavic249

Giving in Dutch: An intra-lexematical and inter-lexematical description267

The origin of the German es gibt construction307

On the development of MANNER from GIVE327

One child’s early talk about possession349

Michael Tomasello

Index of Names375

Index of Subjects379