<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 class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </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)">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" target="_blank" title="https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger</span></a></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="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621" target="_blank" title="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621</span></a></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="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank" title="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(0,120,215)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/</span></a></span></p></div></div></div>