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Kinship terms in Stau

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2023
AbstractThis paper presents a comprehensive synchronic study of Stau kinship terms, offering a detailed analysis of their classifications and characteristics. Stau kinship terms are categorized into vocative and referential/possessive forms. Vocative kinship terms follow the intonation pattern of other vocative phrases, particularly barytonesis, which ...
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On Dagur Kinship Terms

International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 2023
AbstractAccording to conventional linguistic classifications, Dagur is one of the archaic Mongolic languages. This language is unique, allegedly connected with the Para- Mongolic language Khitan, and it has a close areal relationship with two Tungusic languages, Manchu and Solon Ewenki.
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Kinship Terms

2002
Abstract In Seneca’s Phaedra, Hippolytus sees mater ‘mother’ as a soothing address for his distressed stepmother, while she, burdened by her incestuous love for him, recoils from the address and suggests a different kinship term before deciding to abandon kinship metaphors entirely (cf. Boyle 1985: 1330-1).
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7 Kinship Terms

2014
The first section of this chapter states that Kinship terms are a subclass within the word class of nouns. The Atongs have a classificatory Kinship system. The system is typical for Tibeto-Burman languages. Atong also has some purely descriptive kinship terms, such as some reciprocal kinship terms. The second section discusses the morphologically-based
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Dravidian Kinship Terms

Language, 1953
[Proto-Dravidian had a class of kinship nouns which occurred only in the possessed construction (inalienably possessed); this probably was a syntactic rather than a morphological construction. The personal and reflexive pronouns which occurred as attributes in this construction were only the plural ones; distinction of number in the possessor was not ...
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Arabic kinship terms revisited

Sociolinguistic Studies, 2019
This article reports on a study that focuses on the different kinship terms collected in several places in north-western Morocco, using elicitation and interviews conducted between March 2014 and June 2015 with several dozens of informants aged between 8 and 80.
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