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  Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island

Levinson, S. C., & Brown, P. (2012). Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island. In A. Kopecka, & B. Narasimhan (Eds.), Events of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective (pp. 273-296). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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Levinson, Stephen C.1, 2, 3, 4, Author           
Brown, Penelope3, 5, Author           
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1Language documentation and data mining, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_persistent22              
2Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55211              
3Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792548              
4INTERACT, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, NL, ou_1863331              
5Language Acquisition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792546              

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 Abstract: This paper describes the linguistic treatment of placement events in the Rossel Island (Papua New Guinea) language Yélî Dnye. Yélî Dnye is unusual in treating PUT and TAKE events symmetrically with a remarkable consistency. In what follows, we first provide a brief background for the language, then describe the six core PUT/TAKE verbs that were drawn upon by Yélî Dnye speakers to describe the great majority of the PUT/TAKE stimuli clips, along with some of their grammatical properties. In Section 5 we describe alternative verbs usable in particular circumstances and give an indication of the basis for variability in responses across speakers. Section 6 presents some reasons why the Yélî verb pattern for expressing PUT and TAKE events is of broad interest.

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 Dates: 200820102012
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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: 273 - 296 Identifier: ISBN: 978 90 272 0681 7