Typology of kinship terms
Auteur :
Nikolayeva, Larysa
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG
ISBN :
9783631648162
Date de publication :
15 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
420 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
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.