11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface vii
3. List of contributors ix
4. 1. Mental categories in natural languages 1
5. 2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts 11
6. 3. Shape and colour in language and thought 37
7. 4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes": Russian vs. English 61
8. 5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory: A case in Korean 85
9. 6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition 109
10. 7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf: Spontaneous written narratives by a child with autism 133
11. 8. Interaction between language and cognition in language development 173
12. 9. What figurative language development reveals about the mind 191
13. 10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or 'cudsert an embert'? How spelling patterns at the beginning of English disyllables can cue grammatical category 213
14. 11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia 239
15. 12. Events masquerading as entities: Pseudorelative perception verb complements in Mawng (Australian) and Romance languages 267
16. 13. Word and construction as units of categorization: The case of change predicates in Estonian 289
17. 14. Categories and concepts in phonology: Theory and practice 311
18. 15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativity 331
19. Name index 351
20. Language index 355
21. Subject index 357
22. Table of contents of volume 1 361