[Lingtyp] languages with few (emotion) nouns

[PONSONNET Maia]

Dear all,


Nearly two years ago, several of you responded to a query on this list regarding pain interjections.

With the help of Christophe Coupé, Kasia Pisanski, François Pellegrino and Aitana Garcia Arasco, we took this further and identified puzzling form-meaning correlations in pain interjections<https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/5/3118/3319867/Vowel-signatures-in-emotional-interjections-and>.


I am very grateful for all your contributions, which confirmed my inclination to investigate the matter.

(The data shared on this list was upgraded for published data in the actual data set.)


Today, I am considering a different question, namely which emotions languages tend to describe as nouns (rather than words from other classes).

In Australian languages this is reasonably easy to investigate<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2024.2329890>, due to a relative scarcity of abstract nouns.


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.


Any suggestion in this respect will be most welcome !


With many thanks again to LingTyp community for such insightful discussions, and for sharing data,

Maïa


Maïa Ponsonnet

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