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A Note on Disjunctive Categories in Kinship Terminology
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Rogers, 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
An Examination of the Ordinary Use of American English Kin Terms and Kin Term Bound Forms: 'Semantics' As Necessary Meaning
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Brown, Cecil H. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
On the basis of empirical data this paper concludes that knowledge relating to the use and meaning of American English Kin terms is shared and that multiple semantic models do not exist in the minds of American English speakers. (CFM)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory