28.2108, Books: The grammar of landscape: Rybka
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 17:02:26
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The grammar of landscape: Rybka
Title: The grammar of landscape
Subtitle: the linguistic encoding of ethnoecological knowledge in Lokono
(Arawakan)
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/the-grammar-of-landscape
Author: Konrad Rybka
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460931994 Pages: 376 Price: U.K. £ 38.00
Abstract:
Have you ever wondered how the landscapes we live in are structured
linguistically? How does landscape related lexicon and grammar differ across
languages and why?
This book—a result of the collaboration between the author and the
interdisciplinary project Language, Cognition, and Landscape at Lund
University—explores these intriguing questions from a number of vantage
points.
It offers the reader a detailed examination of the linguistic means used to
talk about landscape in Lokono—a critically endangered Arawakan language. The
Lokono people live in Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana; this book focuses
on the Surinamese dialect. Its geographic focus in turn is the border area
between the grass savanna and the tropical rainforest, riddled by a number of
creeks and rivers.
The book caters for the interested semanticians, who will find here a
comprehensive description of the landscape-related Lokono lexicon. It also
offers new insights for descriptive linguists and the linguistic typologist,
whom it provides with a comparative analysis of landscape-related grammar in
three unrelated languages. The book contains also an elaborate description of
the Lokono grammar of space. This allows the reader to locate the
landscape-domain—that is, the realm of geographic-scale space—within the
larger domain of the linguistic encoding of spatial relations. Being the first
detailed description of spatial relations in any Arawakan language, the book
is also an invaluable source of information for any linguists interested in
the cross-linguistic study of the grammars of space. The book is also rich in
cultural information pertaining to the landscape domain, offering the
linguistic anthropologist a glimpse of the Lokono subsistence practices,
material culture, and traditional beliefs inextricably linked to the local
landscape. Finally, the interdisciplinary setting, in which the book took its
shape, rendered the book appropriate for other audiences interested in
landscape, particularly cognitive geographers and landscape ethnoecologists.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Semantics
Typology
Subject Language(s): Arawak (arw)
Written In: English (eng)
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