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Publication details [#32662]

Allen, Nancy J. 1989. The evolution of kinship terminologies. Lingua 77 (2) : 173–185.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

kinship | language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the different structures of kinship terminologies can ideally be characterized by the types of equation and discrimination made among kin-types, and that the dominant trend moved away from a particular specified type of structure towards zero-equation terminologies.