Directional Systems in Philippine Languages
Directional Systems in Philippine Languages
复制标题
菲律宾语言中的定向系统
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Maria Kristina S. Gallego
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Maria Kristina S. Gallego
摘要：本研究对 54 种菲律宾语言中编码四个基本方向的术语进行了历时分析。不同语言的方位术语差异很大，因此不可能为菲律宾重建单一的方位系统。然而，人们发现编码方向使用了四个主要参考领域——太阳的路径、陆地和海洋的区别、风/季风系统和位置系统。虽然这些定向特征可以在不同语系的语言中找到，但菲律宾（和南岛语）语言中对陆地-海洋轴线和季风系统的特殊使用表明了说话者作为海员的生活和实践。此外，根据术语的类型分类，我们可以观察到方向词汇编码中的某些蕴涵关系，即东西轴往往先于南北轴被编码，因为前轴与太阳运动的邻近性，这一特征在所有语音社区中都是自然显着的。
Abstract:This study presents a diachronic analysis of the terms encoding the four cardinal directions in 54 Philippine languages. The direction terms vary greatly in the languages, making it impossible to reconstruct a single directional system for the Philippines. However, it was found that four major fields of reference are used in encoding directions—the path of the sun, the distinction between land and sea, the wind/monsoon systems, and systems of location. While these orienting features can be found across languages from different families, the idiosyncratic use of the land-sea axis and the monsoon systems in the Philippine (and Austronesian) languages are indicative of the lives and practices of the speakers as seafarers. Moreover, based on a typological classification of the terms, we can observe certain implicational relationships in the lexical encoding of directions, that is, the east-west axis tends to be encoded first before the north-south axis, given the contiguity of the former axis to the movement of the sun, a feature that is naturally salient in all speech communities.