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Dixon, R. M. W. 1990. The Origin of "Mother-in-Law Vocabulary" in Two Australian Languages. Anthropological Linguistics 32 (1-2) : 1–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
language for special purposes | lexicon | mother-in-law language
Language as a subject
Dyirbal | Yidiny
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483

Annotation

This article explores the origins of a 'mother-in-law' avoidance vocabulary in the Australian languages Dyirbal and Yidiny.