[Lingtyp] Body and soul / body and mind

[Christian Lehmann]

Dear Masha,

some aspects of what you are looking for are treated in

Lehmann, Christian 2022, “Foundations of body-part grammar”. Valenzuela, 
Pilar & Zariquiey, Roberto (eds.), /The grammar of body-part 
expressions. A view from the Americas/. Oxford etc: Oxford University 
Press; 14-76. (DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198852476.003.0002) [download PDF 
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352029857_Foundations_of_body-part_grammar>]

Section 2.2.3.1 adduces some examples from Yucatec Maya, featuring in 
particular the lexeme /óol/ 'psyche, mind', which is the locus of all 
feelings and mental dispositions. Beside this, Yucatec Maya has the 
following lexemes:

/máak/ 'man, woman, someone'
/wíinik/ 'human being (as opposed to animal), person'
/wíinikil/ 'body' (derived in a formally productive, but semantically 
obscure way from /wíinik/)
/pixan/ 'soul' (a notion heavily reshaped by Christian religion)

Cheers,
Christian

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