EAT expressions in Kathmandu Newar

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✦ Synopsis

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     Polysemy of a word is more often than not a result of linguistic innovation, motivated by our cognition and imagination. Basic verbs often have multiple usages in a given language. EAT is such a verb. Recently Pardeshi et al. (2006) take up the verb EAT and discuss its several semantic extensions in various meanings, including a semantic network diagram that tries to capture the correlations and developmental pathways.
     The paper by Pardeshi et al. focuses on a typological overview of the distribution of the extended usages and the semantic range of EAT. The languages dealt with in the discussion are chosen from the Euro-asia: Persian, Tajik, Turkish, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kashmiri, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Sinhala, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer and Mandarin. Unfortunately, their work does not, however, contain any languages from another no less important linguistic group in Asia, the Tibeto-Burman family.
     Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in Asia, and may be the single linguistic group that stretches from the far east in China to the near Middle-East in Pakistan, and boasts a wide variety of language sub-groups that are worth studying from a typological point of view. Therefore, some samples taken from one of the Tibeto-Burman languages will surely enrich Pardeshi et al.'swork from a typological perspective.
     The aim of this paper is to achieve the fore-mentioned goal by examining some examples from Newar, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley. In Section 2, I'll summarize the anaysis in Pardeshi et al. (2006). Then, Newar examples will be discussed in Section
     3. Section 4 is a conclusion.

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Языки и языкознание;Непальский язык;Языки Непала;Неварский язык