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 SeilerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251359
Parent Title (German):Kölner Universalienprojekt: Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts ; Nr. 39
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 Completion:1980
Year of first Publication:1980
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/08/21
GND Keyword:Cahuilla-Sprache; Verwandtschaftsbezeichnung; Semantik; Morphologie
Page Number:25
HeBIS-PPN:349586454
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht