rarum (or infrequentale?) 75: kinship verbs, i.e., pure kinship relations normally expressed by canonical transitive verbs rather than by nouns (which may also exist, though used primarily for purposes of address)
Where found
Iwaidjian lgs (Australian); Central Guerrero Nahuatl (Aztec, Uto-Aztecan); Yuman lgs (mostlly); (some lgs of) some further North American Indian families [possibly an infrequentale]
Domain
syntax
Subdomain
word classes
Keywords
verb, kinship
Type
rarum (or infrequentale?)
Universals violated
none
Source
Halpern, A. M. (1942). Yuman kinship terms. American Anthropologist 44: 425-441. Langdon, Margaret (1978). The origin of possession markers in Yuman. In James E. Redden (ed.), Proceedings of the 1977 Hokan-Yuman Workshop, 33-42. (Occasional Papers on Linguistics, 2.) Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, pp. 34-36. Amith, Jonathan D. & Thomas C. Smith-Stark (1994a). Transitive nouns and split possessive paradigms in Central Guerrero Nahuatl. IJAL 60: 324-368. Amith, Jonathan D. & Thomas C. Smith-Stark (1994b). Predicate nominal and transitive verbal expressions of interpersonal relations. Linguistics 32: 511-547. Evans, Nicholas (2000b). Kinship verbs. In Petra M. Vogel & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes, 103-172. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
