Rara #75
Legacy number: 75
| Number | 75 |
| Phenomenon | 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) |
| Found in | 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 — word classes |
| Type | rarum (or infrequentale?) |
| Keywords | verb, kinship |
| 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. |
| Violates | none |
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