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Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:27:00
From: Kelsie Pattillo [kelsie at uwm.edu]
Subject: Cross-linguistic Metonymies in Human Limb Nomenclature.

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Institution: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2014 

Author: Kelsie E. Pattillo

Dissertation Title: Cross-linguistic Metonymies in Human Limb Nomenclature. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Typology


Dissertation Director(s):
Garry W. Davis
Edith A. Moravcsik
Fred R. Eckman
Sandra Pucci
Nicholas Fleisher

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is a cross-linguistic lexical study of metonymic change in human limb 
nomenclature. The data analyzed for this study make up both synchronic and diachronic 
databases. The synchronic data come from a sample of 153 non-Indo-European 
languages from 66 language families and are balanced for genetic and areal influence. 
The diachronic data are made up of a large collection of Indo-European etymologies. By 
comparing the metonymic patterns found in the Indo-European historical data with the 
synchronic cross-linguistic data, this dissertation explores to what extent the patterns of 
change found in Indo-European are cross-linguistic tendencies. In addition to showing 
how etymological data from one language family can help identify cross-linguistic 
tendencies, this dissertation also supports the claim that semantic change is regular, 
predictable and unidirectional. This serves as a framework for identifying cross-linguistic 
lexical tendencies. Along with its contributions to the theoretical discussion of regularity 
in lexical change, this dissertation proposes three universal tendencies and a substantial 
amount of lexical data that is useful for future cross-linguistic studies.






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