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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
Peer reviewedBrown, 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
Download full textPasanen, Maija-Liisa – 1978
Finnish visual verbs and the corresponding terms in English are examined to reveal similarities and dissimilarities in the two semantic fields on the basis of translation equivalence. The contrastive analysis describes how the vocabularies of two genetically unrelated languages interpret the visual activity of seeing and looking, and what kind of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
