To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

The paper aims at situating the research direction presented in the volume within the larger
domain of typological research in general. It gives a short summary of what is meant by …

We make the case that, contra standard assumption in linguistic theory, the sound systems
of human languages are adapted to their environment. While not conclusive, this plausible …

We explored the nature of 37 spatial dimensions in Italian, such as lungo–corto (long–short),
inizio–fine (beginning–end), and convergente–divergente (convergent–divergent). In Study …

This article has two aims:(i) to give an overview of research on sensory perceptions in
different disciplines with different aims, and on the basis of that (ii) to encourage new …

This chapter gives an overview of reference-point models in psychology, linguistics, and
other areas of research. My intent here is to show that linguistic aspects of reference-point …

This study adopts a corpus-based behavioral profile approach, combining multifactorial
usage-feature analysis with frequency-based quantitative analysis, to investigate the …

All languages have words, such as English hot and cold, hard and soft, rough and smooth,
and heavy and light, which attribute qualities to things. This paper maps out how such …

В фокусе диссертационного исследования–особенности языковой категоризации
эмоционально-чувственных переживаний человека как вместилищ–в разных …

The Italian system of temperature terminology features the basic terms caldo 'hot'and freddo
'cold', two intermediate terms, tiepido 'warm'and fresco 'cool', and two terms for extreme …