Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference

Terrill, Angela; Burenhult, Niclas

doi:10.1075/sl.32.1.05ter

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Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference

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Terrill, Angela
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Burenhult, Niclas
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Terrill, A., & Burenhult, N. (2008). Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference. Studies in Language, 32(1), 93-136. doi:10.1075/sl.32.1.05ter.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1A43-A

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This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strategy is a major organizing principle in these languages. This strategy has not previously been recognized in the literature as a unitary phenomenon, and the languages which employ it present particular challenges to existing typologies of spatial frames of reference.