Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu
François Alexandre. 2015-02-15. .
BOOKPART, (2015-02-15 ) - PUBLISHEDVERSION - English (en-GB)
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HAL CCSD, John Benjamins
Subject
lexicon, lexical typology, semantic typology, Vanuatu, Oceanic languages, [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Domains
Linguistique, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines
Description
International audience Oceanic languages generally have a small set of lexemes encoding temperature predicates – no more than two or three words in each language. Focusing on a sample of languages from northern Vanuatu, this study describes their temperature terms, analyses the syntax of their various case frames, and highlights relevant semantic contrasts. The temperature lexicons in this area appear to display a limited array of polysemies across semantic domains – whether compared to other languages of the world, or to other semantic domains in the same languages.
Creators
François, Alexandre
Contributors
Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Australian National University (ANU), Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Sources
The Linguistics of Temperature, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. The Linguistics of Temperature, 107, John Benjamins, pp.832-857, 2015, Typological Studies in Language, 9789027206886. ⟨10.1075/tsl.107.28fra⟩, https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.107/main
