Kinship Systems : Change and Reconstruction.
McConvell, Patrick.
Kinship Systems : Change and Reconstruction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1) Introduction -- 2) Kinship Terms -- 3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship -- 4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology -- 5) On Husband-Borrowing -- 6) Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes -- 7) The Evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies -- 8) The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia -- 9) Desertification of an Arandic Dialect -- 10) Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project -- 11) Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia -- 12) Warumungu Kinship Over Time -- List of Contributors -- Index.
9781607812456
Kinship.
Kinship-Terminology.
Anthropological linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Language and culture.
Electronic books.
GN487
Kinship Systems : Change and Reconstruction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1) Introduction -- 2) Kinship Terms -- 3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship -- 4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology -- 5) On Husband-Borrowing -- 6) Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes -- 7) The Evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies -- 8) The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia -- 9) Desertification of an Arandic Dialect -- 10) Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project -- 11) Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia -- 12) Warumungu Kinship Over Time -- List of Contributors -- Index.
9781607812456
Kinship.
Kinship-Terminology.
Anthropological linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Language and culture.
Electronic books.
GN487