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Author:   Alexandra Aikhenvald ,  Anne Storch
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.320kg
ISBN:  

9789004233676

ISBN 10:   9004233679
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   23 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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This book is an important contribution to deeper understanding of the linguistic expression of sensory perception and its correlation with cognition and culture. It brings fresh and diverse questions and approaches that in due time will help refine and expand previous research. Thiago Costa Chacon, University of California, Santa Barbara on Linguist List.

This book is an important contribution to deeper understanding of the linguistic expression of sensory perception and its correlation with cognition and culture. It brings fresh and diverse questions and approaches that in due time will help refine and expand previous research. - Thiago Costa Chacon, University of California, Santa Barbara, on Linguist List

This book is an important contribution to deeper understanding of the linguistic expression of sensory perception and its correlation with cognition and culture. It brings fresh and diverse questions and approaches that in due time will help refine and expand previous research. - Thiago Costa Chacon, University of California, Santa Barbara, on Linguist List

Author Information

Alexandra Aikhenvald (PhD 1984, DLitt 2006), James Cook University, is Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow. She published numerous articels and monographs on languages of Papua New Guinea and South America, and on perception and cognition, including Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Languages of the Amazon (Oxford University Press, 2012). Anne Storch (PhD 1999), University of Cologne, is Full Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cologne. She published on various languages of West and East-Central Africa and on African speech registers, including Secret Manipulations (Oxford University Press, 2011). Her book on Repertoires and Choices in African Languages, co-authored by Friederike Lüpke, is in print. Contributors include Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Anne Storch; Christa König; Willem F.H. Adelaar, Lourens de Vries, Matthias Brenzinger, Anne Maria Fehn, Angelika Jakobi, El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, and Marilena Thanassoula.

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