Jonathon Lum

An egophoric analysis of Dhivehi verbal morphology

Jonathon Lum

Book Chapter  |  2020

Egophoricity is a typologically rare category in which first-person statements and second-person questions share the same marking ..

Socioculturally mediated responses to environment shaping universals and diversity in spatial language

Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, J Lum, Jonathan Schlossberg

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  PROCEEDINGS OF WORKSHOPS AND POSTERS AT THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY (COSIT 2017)

This paper reports on an empirical experiment-based study testing the extent to which systems of linguistic spatial reference corr..

Diversity in spatial language within communities: the interplay of culture, language and landscape in representations of space

Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, J Lum, Jonathan Schlossberg

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

Significant diversity exists in the way languages structure spatial reference, and this has been shown to correlate with diversity..

How does the environment shape spatial language? Evidence for sociotopography

Bill Palmer, J Lum, Jonathan Schlossberg, Alice Gaby

Journal article  |  2017  |  Linguistic Typology

This article investigates the extent to which the way individuals describe spatial relationships correlates with features of the l..

What in the World Is North? Translating Cardinal Directions across Languages, Cultures and Environments

Alice Gaby, J Lum, Thomas Poulton, Jonathan Schlossberg

Journal article  |  2017  |  M/C Journal

For many, north is an abstract point on a compass, an arrow that tells you which way to hold up a map. Though scientifically defin..

The Virtual Atoll Task: a spatial language elicitation tool

J Lum, Jonathan Schlossberg

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  The 45th Australian Linguistic Society ConferenceProceedings – 2014

This paper describes and evaluates the Virtual Atoll Task (VAT), a new elicitation tool for research on spatiallanguage. The task,..