Perception verbs and the conceptualization of the senses: The case of Avatime.
Languages differ in their number of basic verbs that describe perceptual experience. Some languages have only two such verbs: one for visual perception and another for non-visual perception. How do speakers of these languages conceptualize sensory perception? To shed light on this question, this pap...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 1 - 39 |
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De Gruyter
Mar2020
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