Language Worldview of Yakima Indians, Compared with English and Ukrainians

Abstract

The problem of conceptualization the information as well as its further verbalization remains one of the topical issues of present-day linguistic research, though the languages of Native Americans (like Sahaptin – the language of the Yakima nation) still need a more detailed analysis. The present study is the first to single out the means of verbalization the information on ENVIRONMENT & TIME in two distantly related languages (English and Ukrainian) on the background of Sahaptin (the language of Yakima people).