Through the Language Glass, Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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