TY - BOOK ID - 147798954 TI - The linguistics of olfaction : typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity AU - Jędrzejowski, Łukasz AU - Staniewski, Przemysław PY - 2021 SN - 9789027260178 PB - Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Language and smell KW - Smell KW - Terminology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147798954 AB - "This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists"-- ER -