Acknowledgements

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Maps viii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introducing “The linguistics of temperature” 1
6. PART 1. Africa
7. “Hard sun, hot weather, skin pain” 43
8. The semantics and metaphorical extensions of temperature terms in Gurenɛ 73
9. Unravelling temperature terms in Sɛlɛɛ 107
10. Lexicalisation of temperature concepts in Gbaya (an Ubanguian language of C.A.R.) 128
11. Climate, temperature and polysemous patterns in French and Wolof 151
12. Temperature terms in selected African languages 187
13. PART 2. Eurasia
14. Adjectives of temperature in Latvian 216
15. What’s hot and what’s not in English and Serbian 254
16. In the warmth of the Ukrainian temperature domain 300
17. Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology 333
18. Temperature terms in Modern Greek 354
19. Temperature terms in Modern Eastern Armenian 392
20. Facts, feelings and temperature expressions in the Hindukush 440
21. Blowing hot, hotter, and hotter yet 471
22. Temperature adjectives in Finnish 491
23. Temperature terms in Nganasan 537
24. Temperature terms in Khalkha Mongolian 570
25. Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese 594
26. Subdomains of temperature concepts in Japanese 639
27. Why is it not cool? Temperature terms in Indonesian 666
28. PART 3. The Americas
29. Temperature domain in West Greenlandic 703
30. “There is no thermostat in the forest” – the Ojibwe temperature term system 721
31. Temperature terms and their meaning in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) 742
32. Temperature terms in Mapudungun 776
33. Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia 792
34. PART 4. Australia and Oceania
35. Bardi temperature terms 815
36. Temperature terms in northern Vanuatu 832
37. Temperature terms in Kamang and Abui, two Papuan languages of Alor 858
38. PART 5. Typology
39. The syntax of temperature predications 889
40. Subject Index 917
41. Language Index 929
42. Name Index 931