Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categories 1
4. The Americas South America: Quechua
5. Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu 39
6. Central America: Uto-Aztecan
7. Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors 65
8. Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes 91
9. North America: Salish
10. Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages 135
11. Asia and Western Pacific Rim Austronesian Hawaiian
12. Hawaiian ‘o as an indicator of nominal salience 157
13. Isnag
14. Animism exploits linguistic phenomena 173
15. Tagalog
16. The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, polysemy, and voice 193
17. Thai
18. Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai 223
19. A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative alternation in Thai 247
20. Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai ‘face’ 275
21. Holistic spatial semantics of Thai 305
22. Chinese
23. The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do we do and mean with “hands”?* 337
24. Japanese and Korean
25. What cognitive linguistics can reveal about complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and Korean 363
26. Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive Grammar approach 389
27. Europe: Finnish
28. Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs 405
29. From causatives to passives: A passage in some East and Southeast Asian languages 419
30. Backmatter 447