[Lingtyp] Colexificiation of 'hot' and 'cold'

[Adam Schembri]

Hi Ian

An interesting example – thanks for sharing. I’m not familiar with this specific case, but by ‘non-manual expression’, does your consultant include the use of mouthing? Does the sign mean something like ‘temperature’, accompanied by Japanese mouthing ‘hot’ and ‘cold’? 

This phenomenon is attested in some sign languages. For example, in some older varieties of New Zealand Sign Language, signers might use a single sign meaning ‘colour’ which co-occurs with a range of English mouthing for specific colour terms (e.g., ‘red’, ‘blue’ etc). 

Mouthing is a language contact phenomenon unique to signed languages – it’s interesting to consider how this fits into ideas about co-lexification, given simultaneous production of a signed hypernym accompanied by mouthed hyponyms.

Best wishes,

Adam

 

 

---

Adam Schembri (he/him)

Professor of Linguistics

University of Birmingham

Department of English Language and Linguistics (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/index.aspx) 

Twitter: @AdamCSchembri

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home

European Research Council project: www.signmorph.net

www.birmingham.ac.uk

Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / LinkedIn

 

 

If you have emailed me and are still waiting for a reply, please do not hesitate to get in touch again! Reminders are welcome. 😊

 

 

 

 

From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of JOO Ian via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Reply to: JOO Ian <joo at res.otaru-uc.ac.jp>
Date: Thursday, 30 May 2024 at 10:00
To: "<LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>" <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: [Lingtyp] Colexificiation of 'hot' and 'cold'

 

Dear typologists, 

 

Today I have learned that, in the Hokkaido dialect of Japanese Sign Language, ‘hot (object)’ and ‘cold (object)’ are colexified. The consultant told me that there could be a difference in the non-manual expression, but it didn’t seem distinctive to me. ‘Hot (weather)’ and ‘cold (weather)’ are not colexified, however.

Are there other lects (sign or spoken) where ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are colexified? Or is this a rather unusual case?

 

>From Otaru, Japan,

Ian


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
朱　易安 
JOO, IAN 
准教授 
Associate Professor 
小樽商科大学 
Otaru University of Commerce

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
🌐 ianjoo.github.io
📞 +81 (0)134-27-5422
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


 

_______________________________________________ Lingtyp mailing list Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20240530/22e6e980/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 35621 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20240530/22e6e980/attachment.jpg>