![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A notable alternative is to leverage traditional ecological knowledge (TEK, e.g., Pierotti and Wildcat, 2000 Huntington, 2000). To tackle this shared challenge, the scientific community has proposed alternatives to purely quantitative-measurement studies. However, it is impractical to get the required time-span and geographical scale of data to scientifically establish eco-environmental changes and/or impact causality, given the time it takes for the impact on the environment or humans to be fully documented. The impact of human beings on the environment and the impact of environmental and climate changes on the future of humanity are two of the most pressing challenges for our current scholarly pursuits. By explicating the pivotal role of kinesis in bridging weather events and the linguistic encoding of weather, this study underlines the role of cognition as the conceptualisation of physical and sensory inputs to sharable knowledge encoded by language. It is found that such typological exceptions generally correspond to variations in meteorological patterns. The correlation between kinesis and the selection of verbs is further corroborated by an experiment on the perception of native Sinitic language speakers, as well as analyses of regional variations of verb selections that do not follow general typological patterns. The kinesis driven accounts also predict the typological variations between verbal and nominal constructions for weather expressions. Specifically, weather events with bigger weather substances and faster weather processes tend to select action verbs with high transitivity. Leveraging the linguistic theory that kinesis underpins conceptualisation of verb classes, this paper successfully accounts for the selection of verbs for different meteorological events in all Sinitic languages in terms of both language variations and changes. It is observed that the two most salient key factors of weather events, i.e., mass of weather substances and speed of weather processes, are the two contributing components of kinetic energy. We propose to synergise the many concepts of kinesis that grew from Aristotle’s original ideas to account for the correlation between meteorological events and their linguistic encoding. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a wide range of climates and with 3000 years of continuous textual documentation. Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. ![]()
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