<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Horia et al., </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the Tsamosan branch of Salish (Quinault, Upper Chehalis, Lower Chehalis, Lower Cowlitz), 'right side' is typically expressed with a stem composed of the root for 'BIG/MAIN/SENIOR' + a "lexical" (i.e. derivational) suffix meaning 'ARM'. 'Left side' is expressed with an unanalyzable root going back to Proto-Salish. <div><br></div><div>In the neighboring branch, Coast Salish, 'right side' is often (e.g. in Klallam, Sechelt, Lushootseed) expressed by a similar structure, but with the meaning 'GOOD ARM', and 'left side' as 'BAD ARM'. <br><div><br></div><div>In creolized Chinuk Wawa of the lower Columbia River region, 'right side' is 'GOOD HAND/ARM' and 'left side' is 'OTHER/STRANGE HAND/ARM'. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>Dave R.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br><b>David D. Robertson</b> <b>PhD</b><i> <br>(2012, Linguistics, University of Victoria, BC) <br><b>CONSULTING LINGUIST</b><br></i><div><i>* my dissertation: <a href="http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/handle/1828/3840" target="_blank">http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/handle/1828/3840</a> </i></div><div><i>* verify my degree: <a href="https://olcnetwork.com/directory.php?school=uvic" target="_blank">https://olcnetwork.com/directory.php?school=uvic</a> </i></div><div><i>* my address: 4902 N. Washington St., Spokane, WA 99205 USA </i></div><div><i>* my telephone: (509) 828-7344 </i></div><div><i>* my site:
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">In Dalabon, an Australian language of the Gunwinyguan family (non-Pama-nyungan), there are specific terms for the left hand and the right hand, as follows:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i>bala-weh</i> 'left hand'</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i>bala-mon</i> 'right hand'</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i>bala </i>is no longer used with this sense 'hand' outside of these compounds (hand/finger is
<i>langu</i>). </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Dalabon uses cardinals and geocentric terms to indicate directions, and I have not observed that
<i>bala-weh </i>and <i>bala-mon </i>were used for this. In fact, when communicating in English with older Dalabon speakers, the terms 'left' and 'right' were usually not helpful to convey information about spatial orientation. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i>bala-mon</i> and <i>bala-weh </i>are not used to talk about omen or fortune either. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">So these expressions strictly designate each hand as a body part. Given that a vast proportion of the population is right-handed, these compounds are basically conveniently descriptive for a majority of people. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Good luck with your research and kind regards, </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Maďa</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br>
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I am putting together a semantic typology in order to test the following hypothesis:<br>
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Across languages, the word for left (side/direction) (or some derivation of it) tends to get a negative connotation, whereas the word for ‘right’ gets a positive one, if the effect exists.<br>
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Apart from Indo-European languages, where the effect is widely present, this is a non-exhaustive list of languages which prove the thesis: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Fula, Golpa, Hungarian, Malay, Turkish.<br>
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Do you know of any other (preferably non-Indo-European) languages which help confirm or infirm the generalisation?<br>
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Finally, I am also researching whether the effect holds anyhow in languages with allocentric frames of reference (i.e. uphill/downhill, or north/south, instead of left/right). I haven’t been able to find any due to scarce resources, but some examples of languages
with non-egocentric FoR are Tseltal, Haillom, Guugu Yimitirr, Kuuk Thaayorre. <br>
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Thank you very much. <br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Horia Călugăreanu<br>
University College London</div>
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