Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Staniewski, Przemysław 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1903-6316, eds.
(2021).
The Linguistics of Olfaction. Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity.
Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
ISBN 9789027208408
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
| Editors: | Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Jędrzejowski, Łukasz l.jedrzejowski@uni-koeln.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Staniewski, Przemysław przemyslaw.staniewski@uwr.edu.pl UNSPECIFIED |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-512756 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1075/tsl.131 |
| Series Name: | Typological Studies in Language |
| Volume: | 131 |
| Number of Pages: | 481 |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins |
| Place of Publication: | Amsterdam |
| ISBN: | 9789027208408 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I |
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Keywords Language Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Typologie, Diachronie, Sinneswahrnehmung German linguistics, typology, diachrony, olfaction English |
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/51275 |
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