none 10.1075/tsl.131.10fra John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 120294463 3641011 1421459 202507031746000019 10.1075 2025-07-03T11:46:22Z 2020-10-12T00:05:26Z 3 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/tsl Łukasz Jędrzejowski University of Cologne https://ror.org/00rcxh774 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6444-3594 Przemysław Staniewski University of Wrocław https://ror.org/00yae6e25 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1903-6316 Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists. 131 4 26 2021 4 16 2021 9789027208408 9789027260178 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.131 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027260178 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027260178.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.131/html Alexandre François LaTTiCe (CNRS–ENS–Sorbonne nouvelle), Paris https://ror.org/03ms1y683 Australian National University, Canberra https://ror.org/019wvm592 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1947-0806 Langue vs. parole This corpus-based study examines the lexical domain of olfaction in the Oceanic languages of northern Vanuatu. While a tropical ecology is sometimes believed to favor elaborate encoding patterns for smells, this does not appear to be the case in Vanuatu. Most languages there show a rather limited array of lexemes, whether to refer to smelling events (active, passive, experiencer-based) or to the odors themselves. That said, sources based on speakers’ competence ( langue ) rather than performance ( parole ) suggest that languages may in fact possess a latent elaborate olfactory lexicon, even if it surfaces rarely in ordinary speech. The low discourse frequency of specific terms may be explained by cultural factors, as smells appear to play a reduced functional role in traditional social practices of Vanuatu. Finally, my corpus of conversation and oral literature shows that when olfaction is mentioned, it is mostly associated, first, with the islands’ natural environment; and second, with the existential contrast between death and life. 4 26 2021 4 16 2021 277 304 10.1075/tsl.131.10fra https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.131.10fra https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.131.10fra/html Gens de pirogue et gens de la terre. 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