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Weather and Language
Author(s) -
Eriksen Pål K.,
Kittilä Seppo,
Kolehmainen Leena
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1002/lnc3.341
Subject(s) - typology , linguistic typology , encoding (memory) , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , expression (computer science) , computer science , event (particle physics) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , history , philosophy , physics , archaeology , programming language , quantum mechanics , astrophysics
This paper summarizes current findings in the cross‐linguistic study of meteorological constructions. It provides both a typology of weather events and a typology of encoding formats used for the expression of weather in and across languages. The discussion shows that there is a correlation between these two parameters: there are clear tendencies in the distribution of the various encoding types across the various event types. This gives rise to a typology of languages which explains linguistic variation in the encoding of meteorological events.