24.3412, Books: Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology: Pericliev

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:04:25
From: Hattie Clarke [hattie.clarke at palgrave.com]
Subject: Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology: Pericliev

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Title: Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology 
Subtitle: A Computational Perspective 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=594674 

Author: Vladimir Pericliev

Hardback: ISBN:  9781137031174 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 55

Abstract:

This book presents the first computer program, called KINSHIP, automating the
task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. KINSHIP accepts as
input the kin terms of a language with their attendant kin types and can
produce all alternative componential models of a kinship system, including the
most parsimonious one, using the minimum number of dimensions and components
in a kin term definition. A further simplicity constraint ensures the
coordination between kin term definitions. Inspecting previous practices of
the method of componential analysis reveals two basic problems in published
models: (1) the commonly occurring inconsistency of componential models
(violating necessity or sufficiency conditions of kin term definitions), (2)
the huge number of alternative componential models. The application of KINSHIP
with its simplicity constraints successfully solves both these problems. The
utility of the program is illustrated on complete data sets from more than a
dozen languages from Indo-European and non-Indo-European origin.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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