Table of contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introducing “The linguistics of temperature”
PART 1. Africa
“Hard sun, hot weather, skin pain”: The cultural semantics of temperature expressions in Ewe and Likpe (West Africa)
The semantics and metaphorical extensions of temperature terms in Gurenɛ
Unravelling temperature terms in Sɛlɛɛ
Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.)
Climate, temperature and polysemous patterns in French and Wolof
Temperature terms in selected African languages: A pilot study
PART 2. Eurasia
Adjectives of temperature in Latvian
What’s hot and what’s not in English and Serbian: A contrastive view on the polysemy of temperature adjectives
In the warmth of the Ukrainian temperature domain
Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology
Temperature terms in Modern Greek
Temperature terms in Modern Eastern Armenian
Facts, feelings and temperature expressions in the Hindukush
Blowing hot, hotter, and hotter yet: Temperature vocabulary in Marathi
Temperature adjectives in Finnish
Temperature terms in Nganasan
Temperature terms in Khalkha Mongolian
Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese
Subdomains of temperature concepts in Japanese
Why is it not cool? Temperature terms in Indonesian
PART 3. The Americas
Temperature domain in West Greenlandic
“There is no thermostat in the forest” – the Ojibwe temperature term system
Temperature terms and their meaning in Yucatec Maya (Mexico)
Temperature terms in Mapudungun
Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia
PART 4. Australia and Oceania
Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu
Temperature terms in Kamang and Abui, two Papuan languages of Alor
PART 5. Typology
The syntax of temperature predications
Subject Index
Language Index
Name Index
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