Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference
(2008) In Studies in Language 32(1). p.93-136- Abstract
- This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strategy is a major organizing principle in these languages. This strategy has not previously been recognized in the literature as a unitary phenomenon, and the languages which employ it present particular challenges to existing typologies of spatial frames of reference.
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- author
- Terrill, Angela and Burenhult, Niclas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Studies in Language
- volume
- 32
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 93 - 136
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- scopus:39049128960
- ISSN
- 0378-4177
- DOI
- 10.1075/sl.32.1.05ter
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
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- 2bc276f1-06f5-42f1-9674-9f59b8d40d57 (old id 1241549)
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