none 10.1075/tsl.107.19sou John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 74203163 1671087 1421459 202507031741000045 10.1075 2025-07-03T15:42:19Z 2015-03-10T10:43:39Z 1 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/tsl Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Stockholm University https://ror.org/05f0yaq80 The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact. The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers. 107 2 11 2015 3 6 2015 9789027206886 9789027269171 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.107 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027269171 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.107/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027269171.pdf Hilário de Sousa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-8245 François Langella N.J. Enfield Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese are four languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia. The study of the temperature systems in these four languages – two from the Tai family and two from the Sinitic family – provides an interesting test case for the areal study of temperature terms. There has been borrowing of temperature terms between the two families, both between the more modern stages of the languages and between Proto-Tai and Old/Middle Chinese. However, the resemblance in how the temperature continuum is carved up in these languages is not strong. 2 11 2015 3 6 2015 594 638 10.1075/tsl.107.19sou https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.107.19sou https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.107.19sou/html Pan-Asiatic Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics Bauer 5 1806 1996 Identifying the Tai substratum in Cantonese 10.1515/9783110857085 Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction Baxter The Austronesian Languages Blust 2009 The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu Dingemanse 2011 10.1002/lnc3.361 The Sino-Tibetan Languages Dryer 43 2003 Word order in Sino-Tibetan languages from a typological and geographical perspective 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120406 10.1515/9783110207538 Proto Southwestern Tai Jonsson 1991 Guidelines for collecting linguistic expressions for temperature concepts, Version 1 Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2007 Rahmen des Sprechens. Beiträge zur Valenztheorie, Varietätenlinguistick, Kognitiven und Historischen Semantick Koptjevskaja-Tamm 393 2011 “It’s boiling hot!” On the structure of the linguistic temperature domain across languages STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung) Koptjevskaja-Tamm 59 2 253 2006 Some like it hot”: On semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish The Noun Phrase Structure in the Zhuang Dialect of Tian Deng’ Langella 2012 A Handbook of Comparative Tai Li 1977 侗台语言与文化 Dòng-Tái Yǔyán yǔ Wénhuà Li 2002 Mínzú Yǔwén Lin 2003 2 46 2003 关于平话等的壮语借词 Guānyú Pínghuà děng de Zhuàngyǔ Jiècí The subgroup structure of the Tai Languages: A historical-comparative study Luo 1997 The Tai-Kadai languages Luo 9 2008 Sino-Tai and Tai-Kadai: Another look Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar Matthews 1994 10.4324/9780203343685_chapter_7 The Phonology of Proto-Tai Pittayaporn 2009 10.1353/ol.2005.0012 Journal of Chinese Linguistics de Sousa Language contact in Nanning. From the point of view of Nanning Pinghua and Nanning Cantonese A Grammar of Nanning Pinghua de Sousa Lexicology Sutrop 4 60 1998 Basic temperature terms and subjective temperature scale Estonian: Typological Studies III Sutrop 185 1999 Temperature terms in the Baltic Area 壮语方言研究 Zhuangyu Fangyan Yanjiu Zhang 1999