Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strategy is a major organizing principle in these languages. This strategy has not previously been recognized in the literature as a unitary phenomenon, and the languages which employ it present particular challenges to existing typologies of spatial frames of reference.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
93-136
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Studies in Language
Volym
32
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0378-4177