Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture / edited By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch.
Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the world's languages, grammatical evidentials express means of perception. In some languages verbs of vision subsume cognitive meanings. In others, cognition is associated with a ve...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Linguistic Expression of Perception and Cognition: A Typological Glimpse / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch
- 2 Knowing, Smelling and Telling Tales in Luwo / Anne Storch
- 3 Source of Information and Unexpected Information in !Xun—Evidential, Mirative and Counterexpectation Markers / Christa König
- 4 A Quechuan Mirative? / Willem F.H. Adelaar
- 5 Seeing, Hearing and Thinking in Korowai, a Language of West Papua / Lourens de Vries
- 6 Perception and Cognition in Manambu, a Papuan Language from New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- 7 From Body to Knowledge: Perception and Cognition in Khwe-||Ani and Ts'ixa / Matthias Brenzinger and Anne-Maria Fehn
- 8 Perception Verbs and Their Semantics in Dongolawi (Nile Nubian) / Angelika Jakobi and El-Shafie El-Guzuuli
- 9 Excite Your Senses: Glances into the Field of Perception and Cognition in Tima / Gertrud Schneider-Blum and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
- 10 Perception in Lussese (Bantu, J 10) / Marilena Thanassoula
- Index of Authors
- Language Index
- Subject Index.