| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; volume 131 |
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Typological studies in language ; v.131.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Language and smell -- Congresses
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Smell -- Terminology -- Congresses
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Language and smell
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jedrzejowski, Lukasz, editor
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Staniewski, Przemyslaw, editor
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| LC no. |
2020056535 |
| ISBN |
9027260176 |
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9789027260178 |
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