TY - BOOK ID - 1844353 TI - Grammatical categories and cognition : a case study of the linguistic relativity hypothesis PY - 1996 SN - 0521384192 0521566207 0511620713 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Amerindian languages KW - English language KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Grammar KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Cognition KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - -Sapir-Whorf hypothesis KW - Relativity (Linguistics) KW - Whorf-Sapir hypothesis KW - Anthropological linguistics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Psychology KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammatical categories KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. KW - Grammatical categories. KW - Sapir-Whorf hypothesis KW - Categories, Grammatical KW - Categorization (Linguistics) KW - Componential analysis (Linguistics) KW - Major form classes KW - Cognition. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1844353 AB - Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by means of a systematic assessment of memory and classification preferences among speakers of both languages. The study illustrates the distinct approach to empirical research on the linguistic relativity hypothesis which Lucy develops in a companion volume Language Diversity and Thought. ER -