<div dir="auto">Hi Ruth, if I may,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am writing the 'typology of language names' in which there is a section of 'typology of language markers'. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The 'language marker' is the item that gives another item the language status. E.g. weng 'language' in Mian weng 'Mian language'.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are a bunch of semantically related items attested e.g. mouth, matter, thought, talk, etc, and i believe they in line with your student's interest.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To my knowledge, I haven't stumbled on any paper dedicated to this matter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warmest,</div><div dir="auto">Joe</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">在 2024年5月2日週四 下午3:11，Ruth Singer via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> 寫道：<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Does anyone know of work that compares the meanings of words for 'language'  E.g. in the Indigenous Australian language Mawng that I do research on, the word <i>ngaralk </i>'language' can also mean 'tongue, word' and other things. This is a relatively common pattern I think. A student is interested in reading work on this topic, if there has been any published, along the lines of the work in the special issue below:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Volume 26 Issue 2 - Special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics; Issue Editors: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Antoinette Schapper and Felix Ameka</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Issue of Linguistic Typology</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:rgb(59,61,63);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.2">July 6, 2022   <span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/26/2/html" title="https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/26/2/html" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/26/2/html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Cheers,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Ruth</p><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos;font-size:16px"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-- </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr Ruth Singer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Australian Research Council Future Fellow</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Research Unit for Indigenous Language</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">School of Languages and Linguistics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of Melbourne</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger" title="https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)" target="_blank" rel="norefe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