Two types of Cahuilla kinship expressions : inherent and establishing

In my Cahuilla Grammar (Seiler 1977:276-282) and in a subsequent paper (Seiler 1980:229-236) I have drawn attention to the fact that many kin terms in this language, especially those that have a corresponding reciprocal term in the ascending direction – like niece or nephew in relation to aunt – occur in two expressions of quite different morphological shape. The following remarks are intended to furnish an explanation of this apparent duplicity.

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Author:Hansjakob Seiler
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251359
Series (Serial Number)Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup (39)
Publisher:Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln
Place of publication:Köln
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1980
Publishing Institution:Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
SWD-Keyword:Cahuilla-Sprache; Morphologie; Semantik; Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung
Pagenumber:25
Dewey Decimal Classification:497 Nordamerikanische Indianersprachen
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
Licence (German):License Logo Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand

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