{"pk":35111,"title":"‘A long foot crossing mountains’: Forty-three annotated Pumi riddles","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present forty-three interlinearized and annotated Pumi riddles. Riddles are a subgenre of poetry, characterized by their syntactic parallelism and use of metaphor. We look at the structural characteristics of riddles and explore their use of metaphor. Riddles appear in a parallel question-answer pair and may be divided into four different sets based on their structure and content: oppositional riddles, locational riddles, person(ified) riddles and action riddles. Metaphors draw from likeness in shape or movement, and to a minor extent from likeness in colour, texture, sound or function. Riddling is a highly endangered art form and this paper aims to document their beauty for posterity.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Pumi, Qiangic, riddles, metaphor, poetry, parallelism, language endangerment"}],"section":"20.3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12b7v529","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Henriette","middle_name":"","last_name":"Daudey","name_suffix":"","institution":"La Trobe University","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Pincuo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gerong","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lijiang Pumi Research Association","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-01-07T00:30:02-08:00","date_accepted":"2021-01-07T00:30:02-08:00","date_published":"2021-12-31T00:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35111/galley/26151/download/"}]}