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”Some like it hot”: On the semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish
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Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
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September 25, 2009
Abstract
The paper focuses on the main temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish, which are analysed and compared to each other on the basis of their combinability with nouns. Each of the two linguistic systems is strongly rooted in human experience of temperature. First, temperature attributes are chosen relatively to several temperature values or parameters, that are important and salient for humans and have only very approximate physical correlates. Second, physical objects differ considerably as to whether their temperature properties are ever registered by humans, or considered as important and worth mentioning, primarily depending on their function in the human life.
Keywords: temperature adjectives; anthropocentricity; adjective-noun combinability; nominal classification; tactile vs. non-tactile perception
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2006-09
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Keywords for this article
temperature adjectives;
anthropocentricity;
adjective-noun combinability;
nominal classification;
tactile vs. non-tactile perception
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Gender assignment and the structure of the lexicon
- “Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra!” Comparing affixoids in German and Swedish
- ”Some like it hot”: On the semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish
- On the borderline between lexicon and grammar: confixes in Modern Greek and Italian
- Source-Goal (in)difference and the typology of motion events in the clause
- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Classifiers. A typology of noun categorization devices, (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Geert Booij, The grammar of words. An introduction to linguistic morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
- Reinhold Kontzi, Sprachkontakt im Mittelmeer. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Maltesischen, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005
- Silvia Kouwenberg (ed.), Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and other contact languages (Westminster Creolistics Series 8), London: Battlebridge, 2003
- Roderick Bovingdon, The Maltese language of Australia: Maltraljan. A lexical compilation with linguistic notations and a social, political and historical background (Languages of the World 16), München/Newcastle: LINCOM Europa, 2001
