Investigating how people represent the natural environment and abstract it into geographical
(eg, mountain) and geopolitical (eg, city) categories is pivotal to comprehending how they …

The problems discussed in this study are based on variations in verb meaning in west
Papuan speech, namely Irires and Miyah Language. These two languages are in one area …

As has been shown in this book, the categorization of landscape can be language and
culture specific. Furthermore, the labelling of kinds of places in the natural environment in …

This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the
islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar …

Makalero and Makasae are spoken in the eastern part of East Timor. According to the 2010
population census of East Timor's Direcção Nacional de Estatística, Makasae (ISO 639-3 …

Like other areas of linguistic study, toponymy as a domain of analysis does not present itself
as being overly reflective of its own assumptions. I ask whether a sub-category or sub …

This paper describes the toponymy of the Abui community of Eastern Indonesia (Papuan,
Alor Archipelago). In absence of detailed cartographic documentation, we have built a …

How do people perceive landscapes? Do all people, irrespective of their language or culture
perceive landscapes in the same way, or are there differences in how people identify and …

Eight years ago, in the coastal township of Shawbost on the Outer Hebridean island of
Lewis, I was given an extraordinary document. It was entitled “Some Lewis Moorland Terms …

Topographic features are a special category of entities. Geographers conceptualize them as
fields, that is, spatial distributions of an attribute (eg, elevation) or, alternatively, as objects …