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Peer reviewedRogers, Jean H. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
Formal semantic analysis appears to be capable of handling certain cases where kin terms appear to cover an illogical assortment of relatives, an assortment which constitutes a disjunctive class. Two examples are the kin terms "ngaraija" and "tjilja," used by the Njamal, an Australian tribe. (CFM)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
