From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Abstract Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00682-w |