In:The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
Edited by John Newman
[Typological Studies in Language 51] 2002
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 September 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.51.toc
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Table of contents
Prefacevii
1. A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’
2. Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao
3. Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English
4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan): Lexical and semantic density as a function of the ‘stand’/‘sit’/‘lie’ continuum
5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal
6. The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs
7. The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai
8. Men stand, women sit: On the grammaticalization of posture verbs in Papuan languages, its bodily basis and cultural correlates
9. Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages
10. Sit right down the back: Serialized posture verbs in Ngan’gityemerri and other Northern Australian languages
11. Posture verbs in Oceanic
12. The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe
13. Posture verbs in Mbay
14. The posture verbs in Korean: Basic and extended uses
15. Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand
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