Abstract
Upper Kuskokwim (Athabaskan, Alaska) uses a developed system of spatial orientation. That system is based on topological axes “upstream vs. downstream” and “uphill vs. downhill” that can be used at a global scale, in application to major elements of the territory: the Kuskokwim river and the Alaska range. After bilingualism and bicultaralism spread among the Upper Kuskokwim people, particular persons came to understand spatial orientation in a somewhat modified way. We can observe that, as a result of language contact, semantics changes and specific reinterpretations emerge in particular idiolects.
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