Universal #1667

Legacy number: 1667

 Number  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)

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Discussion
Notes
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.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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.