Typology of Kinship Terms |
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| Author:
| Nikolayeva, Larysa |
| Series title: | Donezk Studien Zur Germanistik, Kontrastiven und Diachronen Linguistik Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-653-03703-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests typological classification of kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations - universals - are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms.
This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests typological classification of kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations - universals - are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms.