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 Unpublished, Universität Konstanz.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)

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Discussion
Notes
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches, since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches,
since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?