The Linguistics of Olfaction
Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Editors
| University of Cologne
| University of Wrocław
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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.
[Typological Studies in Language, 131] Expected April 2021. xiii, 481 pp.
Publishing status: Printing
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgments
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vii
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1–34
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35–72
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73–111
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113–135
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137–173
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175–198
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199–220
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221–249
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251–276
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277–304
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305–342
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343–368
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369–402
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403–447
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449–474
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Languages Index
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Subjects Index
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020056534