An interesting couple: the semantic development of dyad morphemes
- Most systematic discussion of dyad morphemes has focussed on Australian languages, owing to a combination of their relative prevalence there, and the development of a descriptive tradition that investigates them in some depth. In the course of researching this paper, however, I became aware of functionally and semantically similar morphemes in many other parts of the world, almost invariably described in isolation from any typological reference point. I have incorporated such data as far as I am aware of it, in the hope that a systematic study will encourage other investigators to identify, and investigate in detail, similar constructions in a range of languages. The current state of our research, however, as well as some interesting geographical skewings that I discuss below, such that outside Australia dyad constructions almost exclusively employ reciprocal morphology, means that most of this paper will focus on Australian languages.
Author: | Nicholas Evans |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-112360 |
Parent Title (German): | Institut für Sprachwissenschaft (Köln): Arbeitspapier ; N.F., Nr. 47 |
Series (Serial Number): | Arbeitspapier / Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Köln (N.F. 47) |
Publisher: | Inst. für Linguistik, Allg. Sprachwiss. |
Place of publication: | Köln |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2003 |
Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2011/08/09 |
GND Keyword: | Australische Sprachen; Morphologie <Linguistik>; Binarismus; Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung |
Source: | Köln : Inst. für Sprachwiss |
HeBIS-PPN: | 347270271 |
Institutes: | keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |