Amy Pei-jung Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amy Pei-jung Lee is involved.
Articles
2021 An overview of olfactory expressions in Formosan languages The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Chapter
This chapter presents an overview of smell lexicon and olfactory expressions in Formosan languages (i.e., the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan) and their typological significance. The linguistic structure of olfaction in these languages is divided into abstract smell terms and… read more
This paper presents a systematic investigation of loan-induced semantic change in Formosan languages, focusing on two major processes: semantic shifts of loanwords and semantic extensions of native words. A semantic shift occurs when a borrowed term acquires a different meaning in the recipient… read more