Weather in Polish: A Contribution to the Typology of Meteorological Constructions

Andrason, Alexander

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“…Some recent studies have shown that kinetic energy can also account for the selection of verbs in weather expressions of other languages. For example, according to the data of Andrason (2019), high transitivity verbs such as bić 'to beat' and rozedrzeć 'to tear apart' may also co-occur with weather nouns for lightning in the Polish language.…”

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“…Following this framework, subsequent studies have examined how weather events are expressed in several languages. For instance, Andrason (2019) explicates the encoding mechanisms of the subtypes of weather events in the Polish language with the typologies of Eriksen et al (2010Eriksen et al ( , 2012. Similarly, Andrason and Visser (2019) analyse precipitation constructions in isiXhosa within such a framework.…”

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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages

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Dong

Yang

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000 years of continuous textual documentation. We propose to synergise the many concepts of kinesis that grew from Aristotle’s original ideas to account for the correlation between meteorological events and their linguistic encoding. It is observed that the two most salient key factors of weather events, i.e., mass of weather substances and speed of weather processes, are the two contributing components of kinetic energy. Leveraging the linguistic theory that kinesis underpins conceptualisation of verb classes, this paper successfully accounts for the selection of verbs for different meteorological events in all Sinitic languages in terms of both language variations and changes. Specifically, weather events with bigger weather substances and faster weather processes tend to select action verbs with high transitivity. The kinesis driven accounts also predict the typological variations between verbal and nominal constructions for weather expressions. The correlation between kinesis and the selection of verbs is further corroborated by an experiment on the perception of native Sinitic language speakers, as well as analyses of regional variations of verb selections that do not follow general typological patterns. It is found that such typological exceptions generally correspond to variations in meteorological patterns. By explicating the pivotal role of kinesis in bridging weather events and the linguistic encoding of weather, this study underlines the role of cognition as the conceptualisation of physical and sensory inputs to sharable knowledge encoded by language.

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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages

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Yang

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…Beginning with Ruwet (1986) and continuing in recent investigations of weather expressions (Eriksen et al 2010(Eriksen et al , 2012Andrason 2019), several classifications of weather expressions and their typologies have been proposed. Ruwet (1986: 203-204) lists six solutions languages have at their disposal when describing a weather event:…”

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Weather domain in Croatian: a corpus–based overview of precipitation and non–precipitation expressions

Katunar¹

2023

suvlin

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Th is study investigates weather expressions in Croatian, focusing on precipitation and non–precipitation weather phenomena. It highlights the complexity of the weather domain as described by extant syntactic, semantic and lexical studies showing variation both inter– and intralinguistically, and as the focus of future investigations. Croatian is examined with respect to proposed typologies of weather expressions, built around the notion of coding weather occurrences with the predicate or the argument of the sentence, or both, as well as investigations of lexicalization patterns of weather verbs with regards to Figure, Path and Manner. Though such classifications are based on cross–linguistic comparisons, their applications for systematizing intralinguistic variability are investigated on Croatian data. Since descriptions of weather expressions in Croatian have mostly focused on a subset of the most common weather verbs, verba meteorologica, a corpus–based approach is used to expand the dataset with different types of syntactic structures and predicates used in describing weather events, complemented by lexicographic sources. Weather expressions in Croatian are analyzed according to the semantic properties of dynamic and static weather phenomena, contextual grounding of a weather expression, manner of occurrence and the notions of primary and secondary weather expressions. Based on the overview of lexicographic and corpus data, this paper sketches an outline for future systematic study of the weather domain in Croatian.

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“…This model can serve as a useful tool in studying meteorological expressions in different languages. Recent studies such as Van Hoey (2018) and Andrason (2019) have looked into weather sentences in Mandarin Chinese and the Polish language with the help of such typology. Also, studies of the historical development of weather words have been conducted.…”

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Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data

Dong

Huang

Ren

2020

Lingua

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Weather in Polish: A Contribution to the Typology of Meteorological Constructions

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages

From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages

Weather domain in Croatian: a corpus–based overview of precipitation and non–precipitation expressions

Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data

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