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Title: Posture Verb Survey
Contributor: Eve Danziger
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Experiment or task
Format: application/pdf
Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/895b3b6f-3707-4ee4-a67f-0eb0c5029f97
Description: Expressions of human activities and states are a rich area for cross-linguistic comparison. Some languages of the world treat human posture verbs (e.g., sit, lie, kneel) as a special class of predicates, with distinct formal properties. This survey examines lexical, semantic and grammatical patterns for posture verbs, with special reference to contrasts between “stative” (maintaining a posture), “inchoative” (adopting a posture), and “agentive” (causing something to adopt a posture) constructions. The enquiry is thematically linked to the more general questionnaire Intransitive Predicate Form Class Survey.
Additional info: Volume 1995, filed under Event Representation.
How to cite this resource:
Danziger, E. (1995). Posture verb survey. In D. Wilkins (Ed.), Extensions of space and beyond: manual for field elicitation for the 1995 field season (pp. 33-34). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3004235.

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- Name : Posture Verb Survey
- Title : Posture Verb Survey
- Date : 1995
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  Description : Expressions of human activities and states are a rich area for cross-linguistic comparison. Some languages of the world treat human posture verbs (e.g., sit, lie, kneel) as a special class of predicates, with distinct formal properties. This survey examines lexical, semantic and grammatical patterns for posture verbs, with special reference to contrasts between “stative” (maintaining a posture), “inchoative” (adopting a posture), and “agentive” (causing something to adopt a posture) constructions. The enquiry is thematically linked to the more general questionnaire Intransitive Predicate Form Class Survey.
  
  Description : Additional info: Volume 1995, filed under Event Representation.
  
  Description : How to cite this resource:
  
  Description : Danziger, E. (1995). Posture verb survey. In D. Wilkins (Ed.), Extensions of space and beyond: manual for field elicitation for the 1995 field season (pp. 33-34). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.3004235.
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  Continent : Europe
  
  Country : Netherlands
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  Name : Language and Cognition Field Manuals
  
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  Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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Eve Danziger. (1995). Item "Posture Verb Survey" in collection "Field Manuals". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/895b3b6f-3707-4ee4-a67f-0eb0c5029f97. (Accessed 2023-09-29)

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