Eating and Drinking in Mandarin and Shanghainese: A Lexical-Conceptual Analysis

Ye, Zhengdao

doi:10.5096/ascs200957

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The study builds on existing NSM work on verb semantics (Barrios & Goddard 2013; Goddard & Wierzbicka 2009;Goddard 2011, in press;Goddard, Wierzbicka & Wong in press;Sibly 2011;Wierzbicka 2009;Ye 2010). A key assumption is that explications for verbs with similar meanings and grammar conform to a shared structural pattern; in NSM parlance, a semantic template.…”

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Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’

Goddard

Wierzbicka

2016

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This study proposes NSM semantic explications for a cross-section of the English verbal lexicon of ‘doing and happening’. The twenty-five verbs are drawn from about a dozen verb classes, including verbs for non-typical locomotion (crawl,swim,fly), other intransitive activities (play,sing), manipulation (hold), activities that affect material integrity (cut,grind,dig), creation/production (make,build,carve), actions that affect people or things (hit,kick,kill) or cause a change of location (pick up,put,throw,push), bodily reactions to feelings (laugh,cry), displacement (fall,sink) and weather phenomena (rain,snow). Though the verbs explicated are specifically English verbs, they have been chosen with an eye to their relevance to lexical typology and cross-linguistic semantics (many are drawn from the Verb Meanings List of the Leipzig Valency Patterns project) and it is hoped that the analytical strategy and methodology exemplified in this study can be a useful model for research into other languages. The study demonstrates the application of the NSM concept of semantic templates, which provide a clear “skeletal” structure for explications of considerable internal complexity and which help account for shared semantic and grammatical properties of verbs of a given subclass.

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Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’

Goddard

Wierzbicka

2016

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“…In past decade or so, there has been intensive NSM research on physical activity verbs (Sibly 2010;Ye 2010;Goddard 2012;Goddard, Wierzbicka and Wong 2016;Goddard 2018: Ch 5). In the present study, I draw on this body of work to explore the semantics and lexicogrammar of a single English verb: climb.…”

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Prototypes, polysemy and constructional semantics: The lexicogrammar of the English verb climb

Goddard¹

2020

Meaning, Life and Culture: In Conversation With Anna Wierzbicka

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“…As well, the Manner section for eat involves some preliminary action with the hands related to bringing the food item to the mouth. (For a detailed study of "eat" and "drink" verbs in Mandarin and Shanghainese, see Ye (2010). )…”

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confidence: 99%