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Temperature terms in Nganasan

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This paper deals with the temperature expressions in Nganasan, a Samoyedic language spoken in the extreme north of Russia. Despite a very harsh climate with temperatures that may fall under -60°C, extreme temperature values are not lexically expressed in Nganasan: there are no dedicated means of expressing them. A life-threatening frost is referred to simply as ‘very cold’. Instead the domain of medium values is elaborated in more detail, with at least three independent and apparently non-derived terms.

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  1. Dybo, Anna & Normanskaja, Julia
    2010 Tezaurus: Leksika prirodnogo okruženija v ural’skix jazykax (Thesaurus: A vocabulary of natural environment in Uralic languages). Moscow: Tezaurus.
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    1998 Nganasan. InUralic Languages, Daniel Abondolo (ed.), 480-515. London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Jahnunen, Juha
    1977 Samojedisches Wörterverzeichnis: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien (Samoyedic word index: Common Samoyedic etymologies). Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura.
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  4. Katzschmann, Michael
    2008 Chrestomathia Nganasanica. Texte, Übersetzung, Glossar, Grammatik (A Nganasan Chrestomathy: Texts, translation, glossary, grammar). Norderstedt.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Koptjevskaja Tamm, Maria
    2007 Guidelines for collecting linguistic expressions for temperature concepts, Version 1. temperature.ling.su.se/images/7/7c/Guidelines.pdf
  6. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M
    2011 “It’s boiling hot!” On the structure of the linguistic temperature domain across languages. InRahmen des Sprechens. Beiträge zur Valenztheorie, Varietätenlinguistik, Kognitiven und Historischen Semantik. Sarah Dessì Schmid , Ulrich Detges , Paul Gévaudan , Wiltrud Mihatsch & Richard Waltereit (eds), 393-410. Tübingen: Narr.
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    1956 Juraksamojedisches Wörterbuch (A Nenets dictionary). Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Plank, Frans
    2010 Temperature talk: The basics revisited. Paper presented at the Workshop on Temperature in Language and Cognition , Stockholm University, 19-20 March.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Rédei, Károly
    (ed.) 1986-1988 Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Uralic etymologic dictionary). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Sutrop, Urmas
    1999 Temperature terms in the Baltic Area. InEstonian: Typological Studies III [Publications of the Department of Estonian of the University of Tartu 11], Mati Erelt (ed.), 185-203. Tartu: University of Tartu.
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  11. Tereščenko, Natalia
    1965 Nenecko-russkij slovar’ (Nenets-Russian dictionary). Moskva: Sovetskaja Enciklopedia.
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     [Google Scholar]
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    2001 Die Wortbildung im Nganassanischen (Derivation in Nganasan) [Studia Uralo-Altaica 43]. Szeged: University of Szeged.
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  14. (ed.) 2002 Chrestomathia Nganasanica (Nganasan Chrestomathy) [Studia Uralo-Altaica Supplementum 10]. Szeged: University of Szeged.
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