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Typology of Kinship Terms

Typology of Kinship Terms

Nikolayeva, Larysa
Kaliuscenko, Vladimir

Hardcover

Series: Donezk Studien Zur Germanistik, Kontrastiven Und Diachronen, Book 2

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3631648162
ISBN13: 9783631648162
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jan 15 2014
Pages: 227
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a group of persons. Kinship term systems were first studied scientifically in the latter half of the 19th century by the American anthropological school, whose scholars researched the culture of inhabitants of the North American continent, often drawing on linguistic data from many Indian tribes. This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests general typological classification of kinship terms and semantic classification of reciprocal kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations - universals - of a probabilistic nature are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms.

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