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Weather and Language
Article first published online: 28 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1002/lnc3.341
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Eriksen, P. K., Kittilä, S. and Kolehmainen, L. (2012), Weather and Language. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6: 383–402. doi: 10.1002/lnc3.341
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Abstract
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.