The Vocabulary of Sense Perception in Estonian: Structure and History Contributor(s): Sutrop, Urmas (Author), Gulya, Janos (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820454567 ISBN-13: 9780820454566 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Language Arts & Disciplines | Speech & Pronunciation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Spelling & Vocabulary |
Dewey: 494.545 |
Series: Opuscula Fenno-Ugrica Gottingensia. Vol. 8 |
Physical Information: 245 pages |
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Publisher Description: In this essay the vocabulary of sense perception in Estonian, its typology, history, and cognition were investigated. This paper consists of four parts - introductory, experimental, morphologica, and diachronical. To sum up, cognitively basic sense perception vocabulary (colour, temperature, taste, and smell terms) is established as a whole in one language - Estonian. The history of the sense perception vocabulary is also investigated. For colour terms the typological development of the colour categories and terms from Proto-Uralic to modern Estonian is reconstructed. The morphological typology of sense perception terms is also looked at and the Estonian sense perception vocabulary is compared with the corresponding vocabularies of the neighbouring Finnic, Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic languages. Contents: Colour - Smell - Taste - Temperature - Basic term - Methods - Vocabulary - Morphology - Typology - Diachrony - Estonian - Finno-Ugric, Uralic Baltic area. |