Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
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Two types of Cahuilla kinship expressions : inherent and establishing
(1980)
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Hansjakob Seiler
- In my Cahuilla Grammar (Seiler 1977:276-282) and in a subsequent paper (Seiler 1980:229-236) I have drawn attention to the fact that many kin terms in this language, especially those that have a corresponding reciprocal term in the ascending direction – like niece or nephew in relation to aunt – occur in two expressions of quite different morphological shape. The following remarks are intended to furnish an explanation of this apparent duplicity.
