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Articles | Volume 72, issue 4
Articles | Volume 72, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-455-2017
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Articles | Volume 72, issue 4
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14 Dec 2017
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Forests: the cross-linguistic perspective

Niclas Burenhult, Clair Hill, Juliette Huber, Saskia van Putten, Konrad Rybka, and Lila San Roque

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In this paper we explore semantic diversity observed in relation to forests. We do so on the basis of first-hand linguistic field data from a global sample of indigenous categorization systems as they are manifested in six diverse languages. We show that basic linguistic categories relating to tree cover vary considerably in their principles of semantic encoding across languages, and that forest is a challenging category from the point of view of intercultural translatability.
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