Vision, shape, and linguistic description: Tzeltal body-part terminology and object description

Stephen C. Levinson

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Categorization, perception, and language Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

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Le tzeltal est connu pour ses discriminations des formes ou des configurations. L'A. examine les implications theoriques pour un domaine du vocabulaire qui joue un role important dans les descriptions locatives. Les termes designant les parties du corps sont organises de maniere metaphorique en parties d'objets inanimes selon une analyse volumetrique complexe de la forme

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