The Linguistics of Olfaction
Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
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2021
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0840-8 (ISBN)
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0840-8 (ISBN)
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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.04.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Typological Studies in Language ; 131 |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 1005 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 90-272-0840-9 / 9027208409 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-272-0840-8 / 9789027208408 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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