The importance of Taste verbs in some Khoe languages

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ID3987076
AuthorsHirosi Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume50
Issue3
Pages395-420
Publication date2012-01-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2012-0014
OpenAlexW2318554807
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Focusing on the perception verb systems in three little documented Khoe languages, i.e., ⫲Haba, G∣ui, and G∥ana, the present paper demonstrates their typologically unique feature, namely the crosslinguistically uncommon behavior of TASTE among the five sense modalities involved in perception verbs. By using the new findings the paper examines two models of the sense-modality hierarchy proposed by Viberg (1984, 2001). In addition, this study also reports on two peculiar lexical semantic classes, i.e., "elaborate taste verbs" and "food texture verbs", attested in G∣ui and G∥ana, in which TASTE potentially plays an important role. The findings of this study have some theoretical implications for lexical typology since they show a subtle interaction between universal and language-specific factors

Hierarchy · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Modalities · Modality (human–computer interaction) · Perception · Sociology · Taste · Typology · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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