Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

by John A. Lucy

Book Overview

Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521566207
• ISBN13: 9780521566209
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"