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Hi Maia,</div>
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Thanks for this interesting enquiry. </div>
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In Nen (Yam family, PNG) the commonest way to express emotions is through an experiencer object construction of the type:</div>
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NP<experiencer:object: ABSOLUTIVE> NP<stimulus.transitive.subject: ERGATIVE> V<transitive, agreeing with the stimulus in its subject slot and the experiencer in its object slot></div>
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The stimulus NP is usually a bare noun (though it can be modified), and denotes a range of stimulus types including sensations (itchiness, hunger, arousal), ailments (diarrhoea) and emotions (e.g. Anger, exasperation, pity/empathy). </div>
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You can find a list of these stimulus nouns in Table 1.1 on p. 17-18 of the attached soon-to-appear article. </div>
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This construction is widespread in Papuan languages, but we still await a comprehensive survey of the emotion nouns that occur in it; certainly the list of Nen emotion nouns included here is far from complete.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 10, 2024 11:12 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] languages with few (emotion) nouns</font>
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<p>Nearly two years ago, several of you responded to a query on this list regarding pain interjections. </p>
<p>With the help of Christophe Coupé, Kasia Pisanski, François Pellegrino and Aitana Garcia Arasco, we took this further and identified puzzling <a href="https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/5/3118/3319867/Vowel-signatures-in-emotional-interjections-and" originalsrc="https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/5/3118/3319867/Vowel-signatures-in-emotional-interjections-and" shash="OY7G9r+gWknWAgznJBG7GQxn5pDilcq9hiedbYwzcNN48WCWOroGDzuOv2DkhdOZsTnjS70XxcpPX0+KYDWllH7p3m8on3jrn+MD0q03DHCafNMfhxq54XtfskDNhcYLqD9RCzVHcmk9x8NImgLKniKYPaQpmrYjUzXc9xaKvy4=" class="x_OWAAutoLink">form-meaning
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<p>I am very grateful for all your contributions, which confirmed my inclination to investigate the matter.</p>
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<p>Today, I am considering a different question, namely which emotions languages tend to describe as nouns (rather than words from other classes). </p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2024.2329890" originalsrc="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2024.2329890" shash="vPpjmbUHxfMNZPmFIt7fl1BdeO/YgJJ0gUOk0S+EsHdStQSDbdhX48x3rJACJ+VUQ54joZmy/SHbHl/RDXLmY03LVW9woxj6/PvLCM55+/WvYuoLXkhqJz3dhD9s0r604iq0AtI7xliUQMaOg6MMlfI1x8+j4fjfNdobIfbQGpw=" class="x_OWAAutoLink">
Australian languages this is reasonably easy to investigate</a>, due to a relative scarcity of abstract nouns. </p>
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<p>In order to put the Australian distribution into typological perspective, I am now looking for other languages with small numbers of nouns/abstract nouns/emotion nouns. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Any suggestion in this respect will be most welcome !</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">With many thanks again to LingTyp community for such insightful discussions, and for sharing data, </span></p>
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