Temperature terms in Mapudungun

Zúñiga, Fernando (2015). Temperature terms in Mapudungun. In: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.) The Linguistics of Temperature. Typological Studies in Language: Vol. 107 (pp. 776-791). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins

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Mapudungun (unclassified) is spoken in south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina at different altitudes in climates ranging from tundra and subalpine to Mediterranean. This paper surveys the basic semantics and morphosyntax of nine temperature terms, of which wütre ‘cold’, füshkü ‘cool’, eñum ‘warm’ and are ‘hot’ are probably the most frequently used ones. While these terms can be used for tactile, ambient, and personal-feeling temperatures, the other five are specialised for one or two of these kinds of evaluations. Notably, all terms can be used as main verbs in predications; most can also be used as adjectives in order to modify nouns, and only wütre and are are commonly used as nouns referring to ‘cold’ and ‘heat’ respectively.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISSN:	0167-7373
ISBN:	9789027206886
Series:	Typological Studies in Language
Publisher:	John Benjamins
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2015 08:01
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:40
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/63373