<div dir="ltr"><div>A good, not often cited, paper on the situation in Eipo Mek not long after contact is:</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Heeschen, Volker. (1978) The metalinguistic vocabulary of a speech community in the highlands of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). In A. Sinclair (ed.), The Child's Conception of Language, 155-187. Berlin: Springer.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>all the best, H</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Pada tanggal Jum, 26 Nov 2021 pukul 08.45 Peter Arkadiev <<a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@yandex.ru">peterarkadiev@yandex.ru</a>> menulis:<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>Dear typologists,</div><div> </div><div>thanks, Ian, this is a good question. Vladimir Alpatov discusses it with respect to Japanese (which has "kotoba" and different types of "go", none of which is equivalent to the European concept of "word") and some other languages both in his classic "Struktura grammaticheskix jedinic v sovremennom japonskom jazyke" [Structure of grammatical units in contemporary Japanese] (1979) and his recent "Slovo i chasti rechi" [Word and parts of speech] (2017). Both are in Russian, though, but many a typologist used to read this language.</div><div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div> </div><div>Peter</div><div> </div><div>26.11.2021, 09:17, "JOO, Ian [Student]" <<a href="mailto:ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk" target="_blank">ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk</a>>:</div><blockquote><div><div>Dear typologists,<br><br>As you may know already, the concept of “word” is notoriously hard to define.<br>Without getting into that, is the concept of wordhood attested cross-linguistically?<br>In other words, do people with different language backgrounds believe that there is such a thing as a “word”, and do what people perceive as a “word” tend to be roughly the same concept?<br>Which boils down to two questions:</div><ol type="1"><li>Do many languages have a native, monomorphemic word for “word”?</li><li>If so, do these words for “word” refer to roughly the same (or, at least, similar) concept?</li></ol><div>I would like to examine whether wordhood is a psychological reality shared by speakers of different languages.</div></div><div><br>Regards,<div>Ian</div></div><img src="https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/PolyU_Email_Signature.jpg"><p style="margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:12px"><br><em><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Disclaimer:</font></em></p><p style="margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:12px"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0.5in;margin-top:12px"><em><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3">This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.</font></em></p><p style="margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0.5in;margin-top:12px"><em><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.</font></em></p> ,<p>_______________________________________________<br>Lingtyp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a></p></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div><div>-- </div><div>Peter Arkadiev, PhD Habil.</div><div>Institute of Slavic Studies</div><div>Russian Academy of Sciences</div><div>Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow</div><div><a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@yandex.ru" target="_blank">peterarkadiev@yandex.ru</a></div><div><a href="http://inslav.ru/people/arkadev-petr-mihaylovich-peter-arkadiev" target="_blank">http://inslav.ru/people/arkadev-petr-mihaylovich-peter-arkadiev</a></div><div> </div>_______________________________________________<br>
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