Nakota Linguistic Acculturation

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-04-25 DOI:10.1353/ANL.2017.0004

Vincent Collette

引用次数: 13

Abstract

Abstract:Nakota (Siouan) has expanded its lexicon of acculturation almost exclusively through coining and polysemy (semantic extension). The few loanwords designate only foreign types of person or animal, and some (e.g., 'pig', 'Métis') have diffused indirectly from neighboring Siouan and Algonquian languages. Loanshifts are mostly syntactic compounds that express concepts alien to traditional Nakota culture. When the influx of new entities and concepts increased at the turn of the twentieth century, semantic extension—representative of an older stratum of lexical expansion, when new experiences were commonly equated with their closest traditional analog—was replaced by coining of transparent and descriptive words.

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Nakota语言文化适应

摘要：Nakota（Siouan）几乎完全通过造词和多义（语义扩展）来扩展其文化适应词汇。为数不多的外来词只表示外来类型的人或动物，有些（如“pig”、“Métis”）是从邻近的苏安语和阿尔冈基语间接扩散而来的。借词大多是句法复合词，表达与传统Nakota文化不同的概念。20世纪之交，当新实体和概念的涌入增加时，语义扩展——代表了一个旧的词汇扩展阶层，当时新体验通常被等同于最接近的传统类比——被透明和描述性词语的创造所取代。

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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.