■ Simeon Floyd Universidad San Francisco de Quito sfloyd1@usfq.edu.ec ■ Lila San Roque Radboud University Nijmegen Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics l.sanroque@let.ru.nl ■ Asifa Majid Radboud University Nijmegen Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics asifa.majid@let.ru.nl Smell Is Coded in Grammar and Frequent in Discourse: Cha’palaa Olfactory Language in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Abstract It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little validity to be expressed in grammar. We demonstrate both claims are false. The Cha’palaa language (Ecuador) has at least 15 abstract smell terms, each of which is formed using a type of classifier previously thought not to exist. Moreover, using conversational corpora we show that Cha’palaa speakers also talk about smell more than Imbabura Quechua and English speakers. Together, this shows how language and social interaction may jointly reflect distinct cultural orientations towards sensory experience in general and olfaction in particular. [ol- faction, sensory anthropology, Cha’palaa, Imbabura Quechua, English] Introduction: Taking Account of Diversity in the Language of the Senses T he language of the senses is at the heart of longstanding debates about the degree to which language may influence or reflect differences in how people across cultures perceptually approach the world. The language of vision, and particularly of color, has provided a contentious example of how languages are claimed to develop in similar ways, based on universal cognitive and perceptual principals (Berlin and Kay 1969; Kay and Regier 2003; Kay, Berlin, and Maffi 2011). These generalizations have been problematized by Lucy (1997) for, among other things, not taking into account the specifics of individual languages, citing examples like the Hanun oo language of the Philippines in which “color” terms imply more than just color (as described in Conklin 1955; see also Wierzbicka 2005). Additional studies of minority languages like Y el ^ ı Dnye of Papua New Guinea (Levinson 2000) or Candoshi of Amazonian Peru (Surrall es 2016) have raised further questions about Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 175–196, ISSN 1055-1360, EISSN 1548-1395. Copyright © 2018 American Anthropological Association. DOI: 10.1111/jola.12190. 175