<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the heads-up. This book was announced a couple of days ago on the Facebook Linguistic Iconiticy discussion group. I would think you are the author of the chapter that discusses Munda languages based on your web pages? <div>I've had a copy of Bodding's 5-volume Santali dictionary for many years, and have been trying to work out phonosemantic mappings in the language using it. This seems to be a relatively under-explored area as most linguists work instead on expressive pragmatics, syntax, morphology, or phonology. And it is undeniably the hardest, since nearly completely dependent on subjective judgements of semantic commonalities between forms with different roots.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been at this attempt for four decades, looking at grammars and lexicons of around 150 languages. Some languages seem to prefer a physico-mechanical metaphor for mapping phonosemantics (forces applied to masses at different angles, so vectors (and perhaps tensors)), but others see the field of play as social physics (attractions, repulsions, changes of rank and status, displays and confrontations, etc.)- postures and gaits, which have a similar vector-based dynamic. The latter appears to dominate in East Central Asian languages. Santali is more of a mixed bag. Kammu, within Mon-Khmer, aligns more with the East Central Asian group.</div><div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:21 AM Anvita Abbi <<a href="mailto:anvitaabbi@gmail.com">anvitaabbi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Dear Jess,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">You may consider looking into the latest publication by Routledge. Here is the link.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Expressive-Morphology-in-the-Languages-of-South-Asia/Williams/p/book/9781138291157" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/Expressive-Morphology-in-the-Languages-of-South-Asia/Williams/p/book/9781138291157</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Anvita</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><span style="background-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span></span></span></font></div><div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><div><font color="#073763" face="georgia, serif">Prof. (Dr.) Anvita Abbi </font></div><div><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">B.B. Borkar Chair of Comparative Literature, Goa University</i><br></div><div><i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Formerly: Professor and Chair of the Centre for Linguistics</span><br></i></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India</i></font></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.andamanese.net/" target="_blank"><i>www.andamanese.net</i></a><br></font></div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:40 AM Jess Tauber <<a href="mailto:tetrahedralpt@gmail.com" target="_blank">tetrahedralpt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm currently examining closely the systems of expressives in a variety of languages from East Central Asia (the old 'Altaic' assemblage, as well as a couple of relatively nearby families. This involves Korean, Nanai (Tungusic), Xalxa and Ordos (Mongolian), Japanese, Nivkh, Santali (Munda), and Kammu (Mon-Khmer). I'm slowly finding common general mappings, even though the phonological systems aren't identical. For example, in Korean (using Martin's dictionary), expressives in initial dental stops appears largely to encode the notion of blunt force used to displace or overwhelm defenders of abstract territories, as if an attacker was attempting to become the top dog in a contest. With palatal stop initials, on the other hand, the set largely codes for dependents, followers, and other voluntary hangers-on, who might be hoping to join in a hierarchy led by some other person. I've seen such mappings in other languages areas as well, but they are NOT universal. Anyone here know of any prior work along these lines, looking at these systems as specifying particular configurations within social physics?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jess Tauber</div><div><a href="mailto:tetrahedralpt@gmail.com" target="_blank">tetrahedralpt@gmail.com</a></div></div><div id="gmail-m_2210841191453805538gmail-m_3418366781330937635DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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