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Amith, Jonathan D. and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. 1994. Predicate nominal and transitive verbal expressions of interpersonal relations. Linguistics 32 (3) : 511–547.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
expression1 | kinship | noun | predicate | verb
Language as a subject
Cahuilla | Chinook | English | Hopi | Huichol | Languages, Yuman | Nahuatl
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper explores the variation in the use of predicate nominal and/or transitive verbal constructions to express kinship relations between two individuals, drawing on examples from English, Yuman languages, Hopi, Huichol, Chinook, Cahuilla and Nahuatl.