Limb Term Naming Patterns in South American Languages

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-02-11 DOI:10.1353/anl.2018.0004

Kelsie E. Pattillo

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract:Although there is widespread agreement that metaphor and metonymy play an important part in naming body parts crosslinguistically, many of the accepted claims regarding body part naming strategies in the world's languages come from unbalanced language samples; the most frequently referenced studies include few, if any, indigenous languages from South America. Focusing on terms for the upper and lower limbs, this article reexamines some crosslinguistic tendencies proposed by David P. Wilkins and Elaine S. Andersen with data from twenty-six language families and isolates spoken across South America; my analysis shows differences in the distribution and examples of the proposed patterns.

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南美语言的肢体术语命名模式

摘要：尽管人们普遍认为隐喻和转喻在跨语言命名身体部位中起着重要作用，但世界语言中关于身体部位命名策略的许多公认说法都来自于不平衡的语言样本；最常被引用的研究包括少数（如果有的话）来自南美洲的土著语言。本文以上肢和下肢术语为中心，利用来自南美洲26个语系和孤立区的数据，重新审视了David P.Wilkins和Elaine S.Andersen提出的一些跨语言倾向；我的分析显示了所提出的模式在分布和示例方面的差异。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.