Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (51 page)

complexity

morphology and

sound systems and

subordination and

concepts,
See also specific types

Condillac, Étienne de

cones

color blindness and

evolution of, in primates

long-, middle-, and short-wave

number of

peak sensitivities of

Conklin, Harold

consonants

Cook, James

Cooktown Herald

coordinate systems.
See
spatial coordinate systems

correlation vs. causation

Course in Modern Linguistics, A
(Hockett)

Crawfurd, John

“crime” and “punishment”

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoyevsky)

Crow system

culturalists

culture-nature debate,
See also
thought, influence of language on;
and specific aspects of grammar and vocabulary, languages, and theorists

Aristotle on language and

color and

complexity of language vs. culture and

concepts vs. labels and

definition of culture and

“freedom within constraints” and

geographic vs. egocentric coordinates and

grammar and

kinship terms and

language as convention of culture and

language as influence on thought and

power of culture and

vocabulary size and

Czech

Danish

Dante Alighieri

Darwin, Charles

“day” and “night” vocabulary

Delitzsch, Franz

De oratore
(Cicero)

De vulgari eloquentia
(Dante)

dialects

dichromatic vision

diphthongs

Dixon, R. M. W.

Djaru

DNA

Dutch

dyes and artificial colors

Dyribal

Egypt, ancient

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

empiricism

Endeavour River

Engels, Friedrich

English

body parts and

color and

complexity of

concept of “mind” and

definition of culture in

gender systems and

grammar and

influence of

logic and

morphology and

plurality and

pronouns and

verb-noun fusion and

verb tenses and

vocabulary size and

vowels and diphthongs in

environmental determinism

“equal complexity” tenet

Ervin, Susan

Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(Locke)

Estonian

ethnic groups

European languages

assumptions about universality and

complexity of, and irregular words

etymology of “blue” in

gender systems in

grammar of

vocabulary size and

evidentiality

evolution

acquired characteristics and

color vision and brain and

natural selection and

theories of color sense and

eye, physiology of

Faroese

Finnish

Fleck, David

“foci”

foreign learners

Fox language

Frank, Michael

“freedom within constraints”

French

gender systems and

grammar and

morphology and

French Polynesia

Fromkin, Victoria

Galibi

Gatschet, Albert

Geiger, Abraham

Geiger, Lazarus

gender markers

gender systems

influence of, on thought

origin and evolution of

sexual equality and

General Anthropology
(Boas)

genetics (biological heredity)

German

complexity of

concept of “mind” and

gender systems and

grammar and

morphology of

“when” vs. “if” and

German Romanticism

German textual criticism

Gilbert, Aubrey

Gladstone, William Ewart

Gleitman, Lila

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

grammar

Australian aboriginal languages and

Boas on, and what
must
be conveyed

complexity and

coordinate systems

cultural freedom and

gender systems and

morphology

need for

non-European languages and

structure of, and society

verbs and

“gray”

“-yellow” distinction

Greek

gender systems and

verb tenses and

“green”
See also
“blue-green” distinction

Homer and

Japanese and

light wavelength of

retina and sensitivity to

“-yellow” distinction

Gurr-goni

Guugu Yimithirr

habitual use

Haeckel, Ernst

Hagenbeck, Carl

Hai||om bushmen

Halevy, Yehuda

Hanunoo

Harvey, William

Haviland, John

Hawaiian

Hay, Jennifer

Hebrew

body parts and

gender systems and

pronouns and

subordination and

verb tenses and

Heine, Heinrich

Helmholtz, Hermann von

Henley, John

Henry VIII, king of England

Herder, Johann Gottfried

Hittite

Hjelmslev, Louis

Hockett, Charles

Holmgren, Frithiof

Homer

“Homme et la mer, L’ ” (Baudelaire)

Hopevale, Australia

Hopi

Hopi Time
(Malotki)

House in Bali, A
(McPhee)

Hughes, Ted

human nature,
See also
culture-nature debate

human vs. non-human, gender systems and

Humboldt, Wilhelm von

Hungarian

Hupa

Icelandic sagas

Iliad
(Homer)

“improvement through practice” model,
See also
acquired characteristics, inheritance of; Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste; Lamarckian evolution

India

Indo-European languages

gender systems and

morphology and

verb tenses and

Indonesian

Ingalik

“interference task”

Introduction to Language
(Fromkin and Rodman)

Italian

gender systems and

Ivry, Richard

Jakobson, Roman

Jaminjung

Japanese

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerusalem, odes to

Jespersen, Otto

Jesuits

Journal of Ethnology

Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia
(Crawfurd)

Kant, Immanuel

“kangaroo”

Kay, Paul

Kayayardild

Kempton, Willett

Kgalagadi

Khetarpal, Naveen

King, Philip Parker

kinship terms

Kipling, Rudyard

Klamath Indians

Konishi, Toshi

Koran

Krause, Ernst

Kutchin

labels

Lagerlunda train crash

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

Lamarckian evolution

language(s).
See also
color; culture-nature debate; grammar; thought, influence of language on;
and specific color vocabulary, grammatical concepts, languages, and theorists

brain’s left hemisphere as seat of

complexity of

concepts vs. labels in

coordinate systems in

disappearance of

gender systems in

grammar as necessary to

as lens

as mirror

parts of

perception and

“prison-house” of

structure of society and grammatical systems and

subordination and

two lives of, in public vs. private roles

verbs and

what
may
vs. what
must
be conveyed and

lapis lazuli

La Salle de l’Étang, Simon-Philibert de

Latin

Lazarus, Emma

left hemisphere, of brain

left-right asymmetry

Le Laboureur, Louis

Levinson, Stephen

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Li, Peggy

light

energy of, vs. wavelength

wavelengths of

“linguistic relativity”

“Linguistic Relativity in French, English, and German Philosophy” (Harvey)