Universal 1662:
- Original
- The frequency of kin term doublets is correlated with the parental prototype.
- Standardized
- IF there are doublets for kin terms other than of parental prototype, THEN there are doublets for kin terms of parental prototype.
- Keywords
- kinship
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages surveyed by Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm
- Source
- Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm (forthcoming)
- Counterexamples
KIN TERM DOUBLETS are denotationally synonymous kin terms, i.e. they express the same kinship relation, e.g. English: dad/father, mum/mother; Russian: papa/otec ‘father’, mama/mat’ ‘mother’; French: papa/père ‘father’, maman/mère ‘mother’; Sirionó (Tupi): paba/ru ‘father’, tei/si ‘mother’. The members of kin term doublets usually differ with respect to their use. A common pattern is for one member to be more frequent in vocative and egocentric uses.