Rara #5
Legacy number: 5
| Number | 5 |
| Phenomenon | a sizable inventory of basic smell terms, i.e., one with more than two or three items |
| Found in | Des(s)ana (Tucanoan, Andean-Equatorial); Totonaca (Totonacan, Penutian); Wanzi, Nzebi, Sangu, Tsogo, Fang (all North Western area, Bantu Proper, Niger-Congo); Ser(r)er Ndut (West Atlantic, Niger-Congo); Kapsiki (aka Higi; Biu-Mandara, Chadic, Afroasiatic) |
| Domain | lexicon — basic terms |
| Type | rarum |
| Keywords | smell terms |
| Source | Plank, Sigrid & Frans Plank (1995). Unsägliche Gerüche: Versuche, trotzdem vom Riechen zu sprechen. In Bernd Busch & Uta Brandes (eds.), Das Riechen: Von Nasen, Düften und Gestank, 59-72. Göttingen: Steidl. Plank, Frans (1997). Apologie für die niedere Sinnlichkeit. Unpublished, Universität Konstanz. with further references |
| Violates | (claims by Weisgerber, Sperber, et al., refs. in source) |
Discussion
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Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches, since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?
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since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?