ELL: figurative typology

[Stephanie Ball]

Fellow Linguists,

	I am a fourth year honours student studying linguistics at the University
of Alberta (Canada).  For my thesis, I’m conducting a typological study of
the way in which terms for minor body and bodily effluvia are lexicalized,
expanding on the work done by David Wilkins (1996) in similar semantic
domains.  I am especially interested in which terms have a monomorphemic or
literal gloss and which are multimorphemic and/or figurative. If you are a
native speaker of a language other than English or have access to such a
person, or if you have lexical information for these forms, would you mind
taking the time to complete my lists with forms specific to your language
(this would involve supplying 36 forms and glosses)?  I need both the form
and the literal gloss, if there is one. If you would like to also provide a
morphological parse or additional comments, these would be greatly
appreciated as well. Please print out the lists below, download them from my
website ( www.ualberta.ca/~sball ), or contact me by email to request a copy
directly (sball at ualberta.ca); then email, fax, or send me your completed
lists by March 10th, 2001 (my thesis is due March 31st).  If you are
interested in more information about my project, I would be happy to send it
to you. I will post my results in April or May; please check my website for
details.  Thank-you for your time and consideration!

						Stephanie Ball
						Department of Linguistics
						University of Alberta
						Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7
						CANADA
			email: sball at ualberta.ca
			FAX:  +780/492-0806

List One:  Minor Body Parts

concept:	anus
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	ankle
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	bellybutton
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	bone
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	bruise
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	earlobe
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	gall bladder
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	knee (cap)
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	knuckle
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	muscle
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	finger/toe nail
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	nipple
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	nostril
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	pupil
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	skin
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	wrist
form:
literal gloss:
List Two:  Bodily Effluvia

concept:	afterbirth
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	bile
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	blood
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	breast milk
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	drool
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	earwax
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	eye “sand” or “sleep”
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	fart
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	feces
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	menstrual blood
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	nasal mucus (“snot”)
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	nasal blood
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	naval peelings (“bellybutton lint”)
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	pus
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	saliva
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	semen/sperm
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	sweat
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	tears
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	urine
form:
literal gloss:

concept:	vomit
form:
literal gloss:


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