Full Description
Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the world's languages, grammatical evidentials express means of perception. In some languages verbs of vision subsume cognitive meanings. In others, cognition is associated with a verb of auditory perception, touch, or smell. 'Vision' is not the universally preferred means of perception. In numerous cultures, taboos are associated with forbidden visual experience. Vision may be considered intrusive and aggressive, and linked with power. In contrast, 'hearing' and 'listening' are the main avenues for learning, understanding and 'knowing'. The studies presented in this book set out to explore how these meanings and concepts are expressed in languages of Africa, Oceania, and South America.
Contents
List of tables, maps and figures
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Linguistic expression of perception and cognition: a typological glimpse
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch
2. Knowing, smelling and telling tales in Luwo
Anne Storch
3. Source of information and unexpected information in !Xun — evidential, mirative
and counterexpectation markers
Christa König
4. A Quechuan mirative?
Willem F.H. Adelaar
5. Seeing, hearing and thinking in Korowai, a language of West Papua
Lourens de Vries
6. Perception and cognition in Manambu, a Papuan language from New Guinea
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
7. From body to knowledge: perception and cognition in Khwe-||Ani (Central Khoisan)
Matthias Brenzinger and Anne Maria Fehn
8. Perception verbs and their semantics in Dongolawi (Nile Nubian)
Angelika Jakobi and El-Shafie El-Guzuuli
9. Excite your senses — glances into the field of perception and cognition in Tima
Gertrud Schneider-Blum and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
10. Perception in Lussese (Bantu, J10)
Marilena Thanassoula
Author index
Language index
Subject index
