The linguistics of olfaction: typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity

"This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological invest...

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Körperschaft: Workshop Towards a Typology of Olfactory Expressions Neapel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Jędrzejowski, Łukasz (HerausgeberIn), Staniewski, Przemysław (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language 131
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Zusammenfassung:"This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists"
Beschreibung:Selected papers from the workshop "Towards a Typology of Olfactory Expressions", convened and organized by the volume editors, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea at Naples, 31 August-3 September, 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 481 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9789027260178
DOI:10.1075/tsl.131

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