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Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference

In English

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.

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