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Publication details [#34299]
Merlan, Francesca. 1989. Jawoyn Relationship Terms: Interactional Dimensions of Australian Kin Classification. Anthropological Linguistics 31 (3-4) : 227–263.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483
Annotation
This paper describes how the participant roles of the speech situation intersect with the structure of kin relations encoded by such terms in Jawoyn, a language of the Northern Australian Territory.