6.397 Qs: Metaphoric color terms, Caucasian languages, K. Sugai

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-397. Mon 20 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 139
 
Subject: 6.397 Qs: Metaphoric color terms, Caucasian languages, K. Sugai
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 10:28:00 +0100
From: Sebastian Loebner (loebner at sapir.ling.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Subject: metaphoric color terms
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 08:44:34 -0500
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: Mystery Language
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:10 -0500
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: Four more (or less) mysterious languages
 
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Date:         Wed, 15 Mar 95 09:41:01 EST
From: 3914LARP at VM1.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      Looking for K. Sugai
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 10:28:00 +0100
From: Sebastian Loebner (loebner at sapir.ling.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Subject: metaphoric color terms
 
Dear members of the linguist list,
I'm interested in color terms which are used (in a broad sense
metaphorically) for primarily nonvisible properties.
One common phenomenon is color terms for "shades" of political
orientations ('red' for the left, 'black' for conservative etc.).
Apart from those there are sporadic cases such as German 'blau' ("blue")
for "drunken".
Any examples from any language are welcome. I'll compile a summary for
the list eventually.
Thanks for contributions
 
Sebastian Loebner
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 08:44:34 -0500
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: Mystery Language
 
Could someone help me identify the following 1730-vintage word list
of a language spoken somewhere in the Caucasus and called Curali
in the source:
 
god kysser
human adam
head killa
beard szrall
hand kill
belly sarar
fox ihi
foot kokar
horse belgan
dog byz
sheep langatt
finger tapalar
cow siavra
wolf willi
mouth damma
 
Alexis MR
 
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:10 -0500
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Q: Four more (or less) mysterious languages
 
I would appreciate any help tracking down four Caucasian languages
based on word lists from 1730.  I have reproduced parts of the word
lists below. The language names followed by ? are my guesses, the
ones in parentheses below that are Strahlenberg's (1730) names for
the people speaking these languages.
 
          Avar ?    ??             Khinalug?      Kabardian ?
          (Avari,   (Komucki,      (Kubatschin)   (Tzerkaessi,
           Akari)    Kaitak)                       Gurschi)
 
1         szu       sadat          sah            ci
2         giggu     giwa           kou            toku
3         hanku     slambaco       kejerbeck      szu
4         onku      moynick        auff           giu
5         tziloku   kewa           yku            tuku
head      biber     baeg           ---            schio
eye       bustul    geru           olwa           no"
nose      buschi    mi             mirr           peck
tongue    ---       maerr          musull         tzug
 
Strahlenberg (1730) adds that the "Kubatschin" live near Derbent
and are thought to be descended from Jews.
 
Alexis MR
 
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Date:         Wed, 15 Mar 95 09:41:01 EST
From: 3914LARP at VM1.ULAVAL.CA
Subject:      Looking for K. Sugai
 
Dear linguists,
very briefly, i've been unable to locate what appears to be a very interesting
paper on the scope of negation by Kazumi Sugai in the Nagoya Working Papers
in Linguistics. I've been unable to locate the author and the editor. Can
someone help me get in touch with either Mr.(Mme?) Sugai or the people at
Nagoya?? Thank you so much and sorry for the trouble.
 
Pierre Larrivee
Departement de langues et linguistique, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada,
G1K 7P4
3914larp at vm1.ulaval.ca
 
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