Newman John (Editor). The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing, and Lying

John Benjamins, 2002. — xii, 497 pages. — (Typological Studies in Language). — ISBN: 90-272-2957-0 / 1 58811 204 7.The chapters in this volume were written in response to a call for papers in August 1999, inviting linguists to explore linguistic properties of verbs which are used to describe some key at-rest positions: sitting, standing, and lying. Such verbs are referred to as ‘‘posture verbs’’ in this volume, even though these verbs may have various uses in addition to being used to refer to human postures.A cross-linguistic overview of the posture verbs ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’
Semantics and combinatorics of ‘sit’, ‘stand’, and ‘lie’ in Lao
Action and state interpretations of ‘sit’ in Japanese and English
Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan): Lexical and semantic density as a function of the ‘stand’/‘sit’/‘lie’ continuum
Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal
The semantic network of Dutch posture verbs
The syntax and semantics of posture forms in Trumai
Men stand, women sit: On the grammaticalization of posture verbs in Papuan languages, its bodily basis and cultural correlates
Posture, location, existence, and states of being in two Central Australian languages
Sit right down the back: Serialized posture verbs in Ngan’gityemerri and other Northern Australian languages
Posture verbs in Oceanic
The grammatical evolution of posture verbs in Kxoe
Posture verbs in Mbay
The posture verbs in Korean: Basic and extended uses
Embodied standing and the psychological semantics of stand