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Introduction: spatial language, cognition and environment

Introduction: spatial language, cognition and environment ACTA LINGUISTICA HAFNIENSIA 2018, VOL. 50, NO. 2, 123–128 https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2018.1501189 INTRODUCTION Introduction: spatial language, cognition and environment a b Ditte Boeg Thomsen and Jan Heegård Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding spatial information and of grounding utterances geographically by pointing to the surrounding landscape. Languages vary both in the spatial concepts they require their speakers to hold and in the degree of routine attention to the physical environment they demand. The five papers in this special issue illustrate crosslinguistic variation in coding strategies for spatial notions as well as methods for investigating such variation, two key themes for the conference Geographic Grounding: Place, direction and landscape in the gram- mars of the world, held in Copenhagen 30–31 May 2016, where the content and perspectives of the five papers were first presented. This issue comprises studies in spatial coding strategies in West Greenlandic (Inuit, Greenland), Icelandic (Germanic, Iceland), Faroese (Germanic, the Faroe Islands), Kalasha and Palula (both Indo-Aryan, Pakistan), Diidxazá (Zapotecan, Mexico), Acazulco Otomí (Otopamean, Mexico) and Mexican Spanish (Romance, Mexico), and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

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ACTA LINGUISTICA HAFNIENSIA 2018, VOL. 50, NO. 2, 123–128 https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2018.1501189 INTRODUCTION Introduction: spatial language, cognition and environment a b Ditte Boeg Thomsen and Jan Heegård Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding...
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ACTA LINGUISTICA HAFNIENSIA 2018, VOL. 50, NO. 2, 123–128 https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2018.1501189 INTRODUCTION Introduction: spatial language, cognition and environment a b Ditte Boeg Thomsen and Jan Heegård Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding spatial information and of grounding utterances geographically by pointing to the surrounding landscape. Languages vary both in the spatial concepts they require their speakers to hold and in the degree of routine attention to the physical environment they demand. The five papers in this special issue illustrate crosslinguistic variation in coding strategies for spatial notions as well as methods for investigating such variation, two key themes for the conference Geographic Grounding: Place, direction and landscape in the gram- mars of the world, held in Copenhagen 30–31 May 2016, where the content and perspectives of the five papers were first presented. This issue comprises studies in spatial coding strategies in West Greenlandic (Inuit, Greenland), Icelandic (Germanic, Iceland), Faroese (Germanic, the Faroe Islands), Kalasha and Palula (both Indo-Aryan, Pakistan), Diidxazá (Zapotecan, Mexico), Acazulco Otomí (Otopamean, Mexico) and Mexican Spanish (Romance, Mexico), and the

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2018

References

  • Spatial Frames of Reference in Mesoamerican Languages
  • Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization