<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Masha,<div><br></div><div>In Sino-Tibetan languages, there is surprisingly a cognate set for "soul", exemplified by Japhug <i>tɯ-rla</i>, Tibetan <i>bla</i>, Jinghpo <i>nùmlā</i> etc (see other cognates in <a href="https://stedt.berkeley.edu/~stedt-cgi/rootcanal.pl/etymon/2264">STEDT Etymon #2264 (berkeley.edu)</a>). Words translatable by "mind" or "body" vary a lot, but in Tibetan cultural areas they tend to be borrowed from Tibetan (Japhug <i>tɯ-sɯm</i> "mind", <i>tɯ-phoŋbu </i>from Tibetan <i>sems</i> "mind", <i>phuŋ.po</i> "heap, body"), and in Tibetan they have acquired meanings calqued from Sanskrit <i>manas</i>- and <i>skandha</i>-, respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 4 mars 2024 à 16:27, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I’ve got a question from a colleague working in health psychology about the dichotomies such as “body vs. soul”, “body vs. mind” etc, as opposed to “person”, “human being etc.: how spread are these across the cultures and languages of the world?
I know that a number of languages lack a dedicated word for ‘body’, but not so much about the distinction between the physical and non-physical aspects of human beings.</div>
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<div>I would be grateful for any information / references / pointers. </div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Maria / Masha</div>
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<div>Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br>
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University<br>
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<br>
tel.: +46-8-16 26 20<br>
<a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se" target="_blank">tamm@ling.su.se</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Guillaume Jacques</div><div><br></div><div>Directeur de recherches<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - EPHE- INALCO <br></div><div><a href="https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1XCp2-oAAAAJ&hl=fr" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1XCp2-oAAAAJ&hl=fr</a><br></div><div><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295</a></div><div><div><a href="http://panchr.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">http://panchr.hypotheses.org/</a></div></div></div></div>