ELL: figurative typology

[Jack Rueter]

Dear Stephanie Ball,
This is the response for Erzian Mordvinian
By Jack Rueter and Olga Yerina

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Stephanie Ball wrote:

> Fellow Linguists,
>
> 	I am a fourth year honours student studying linguistics at the University
> of Alberta (Canada).  For my thesis, I’m conducting a typological study of
> the way in which terms for minor body and bodily effluvia are lexicalized,
> expanding on the work done by David Wilkins (1996) in similar semantic
> domains.  I am especially interested in which terms have a monomorphemic or
> literal gloss and which are multimorphemic and/or figurative. If you are a
> native speaker of a language other than English or have access to such a
> person, or if you have lexical information for these forms, would you mind
> taking the time to complete my lists with forms specific to your language
> (this would involve supplying 36 forms and glosses)?  I need both the form
> and the literal gloss, if there is one. If you would like to also provide a
> morphological parse or additional comments, these would be greatly
> appreciated as well. Please print out the lists below, download them from my
> website ( www.ualberta.ca/~sball ), or contact me by email to request a copy
> directly (sball at ualberta.ca); then email, fax, or send me your completed
> lists by March 10th, 2001 (my thesis is due March 31st).  If you are
> interested in more information about my project, I would be happy to send it
> to you. I will post my results in April or May; please check my website for
> details.  Thank-you for your time and consideration!
>
> 						Stephanie Ball
> 						Department of Linguistics
> 						University of Alberta
> 						Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7
> 						CANADA
> 			email: sball at ualberta.ca
> 			FAX:  +780/492-0806
>
> List One:  Minor Body Parts
>
> concept:	anus
> form: mukor+var'a
> literal gloss: butt + hole
>
> concept:	ankle
> form: pil'ge+polda
> literal gloss:leg/foot + joint/knuckle
>
> concept:	bellybutton
> form:pocho
> literal gloss: 'bellybutton'
>
> concept:	bone
> form:lovazha
> literal gloss:'bone'
>
> concept:	bruise
> form:tomba+makso
> literal gloss:bruising+liver
>
> concept:	earlobe
> form:pi'le+pot'e
> literal gloss:
>
> concept:	gall bladder
> form:sepe
> literal gloss:'gall bladder'
>
> concept:	knee (cap)
> form:kumanzha
> literal gloss:'knee'
>
> concept:	knuckle
> form:polda
> literal gloss:'knuckle'
>
> concept:	muscle
> form:syvel'
> literal gloss:meat
>
> concept:	finger/toe nail
> form:ken'zhe; (pil'ge+sur+ken'zhe)
> literal gloss:'finger/toe nail'; (foot+finger+nail)
>
> concept:	nipple
> form:pot'e
> literal gloss:'teat'
>
> concept:	nostril
> form:sudo+var'a
> literal gloss:nose+hole
>
> concept:	pupil
> form:s'el'me+loman'
> literal gloss:eye+person
>
> concept:	skin
> form:ked', kis'k'e
> literal gloss:'skin'
>
> concept:	wrist
> form:ked'+kir'ga
> literal gloss:arm/hand+throat
> List Two:  Bodily Effluvia
>
> concept:	afterbirth
> form:mejel'kst
> literal gloss:'afters'
>
> concept:	bile
> form:sepsht'
> literal gloss:gallbladder + 'ending'
>
> concept:	blood
> form:ver'
> literal gloss:blood
>
> concept:	breast milk
> form:pot'e+lovso
> literal gloss:'teat+milk'
>
> concept:	drool
> form:slun'a
> literal gloss:'drool'
>
> concept:	earwax
> form:pil'e+oj
> literal gloss:'ear+oil/butter
>
> concept:	eye “sand” or “sleep”
> form:nulko
> literal gloss:eye ^Ssand^T or ^Ssleep^T
>
> concept:	fart
> form:poznams
> literal gloss:fart
>
> concept:	feces
> form:vac't'
> literal gloss:manure+pl
>
> concept:	menstrual blood
> form:panart; mus'kemat
> literal gloss: shirts; laundryings
>
> concept:	nasal mucus (“snot”)
> form:nolgo
> literal gloss: 'snot'
>
> concept:	nasal blood
> form:ver'
> literal gloss: blood
>
> concept:	naval peelings (“bellybutton lint”)
> form:puvt
> literal gloss:'naval peelings'
>
> concept:	pus
> form:syj
> literal gloss: pus
>
> concept:	saliva
> form:s'el'ge
> literal gloss:saliva
>
> concept:	semen/sperm
> form:sperma
> literal gloss:sperma
>
> concept:	sweat
> form:l'ivez'
> literal gloss: sweat
>
> concept:	tears
> form:s'el'ved'
> literal gloss:eye+water
>
> concept:	urine
> form:churamo+nachko
> literal gloss:urinatino+wet
>
> concept:	vomit
> form:uksnoma
> literal gloss:vomiting
>
>
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