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In the last two decades there has been a orescence of experimental research demonstrating that crosslinguistic disparities foster di erences in nonlinguistic thought across human populations. The linguistic in uences on thought that have been uncovered are associated with a number of cognitive phenomena including spatial orientation, quantity recognition, color perception, gender discrimination, and others (Everett 2013). While the extent of such 'relativistic' e ects remains a matter of some debate, their existence is now generally incontrovertible. Signi cantly, most of the e ects in question relate to crosslinguistic semantic variation instantiated lexically and/or morphologically. One question that remains largely unexplored in such research is whether syntactic crosslinguistic disparities yield di erences in the way speakers construe associated entities and relationships in nonlinguistic contexts. For instance, as McGregor (2009) notes, it is unclear whether speakers of syntactically ergative languages di erentiate nonlinguistic concepts (e. g. agency in perceived events) in a more 'ergative' manner than speakers of non-ergative languages. In this chapter I suggest that the fr

Author

Caleb Everett

Publisher

De Gruyter

Published

2021

Language

EN