[Lingtyp] languages with few (emotion) nouns

Tue Dec 10 06:41:05 UTC 2024

Hi Maïa,

I've worked on Kalamang (Papuan) and Uruangnirin (Austronesian) and I don't think I've encountered any nouns to express emotions. I searched my database for happy, sad, shy and angry and only encountered verbs. In Uruangnirin, some of these are noun + verb compounds where 'liver' is the noun, like in Indonesian (where hati means liver but also seat of emotions and also I think the soul). Let me know if you have any questions.

Eline

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> Dear all,
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> Nearly two years ago, several of you responded to a query on this list regarding pain interjections.
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> With the help of Christophe Coup?, Kasia Pisanski, Fran?ois Pellegrino and Aitana Garcia Arasco, we took this further and identified puzzling form-meaning correlations in pain interjectionshttps://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/5/3118/3319867/Vowel-signatures-in-emotional-interjections-and.
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> I am very grateful for all your contributions, which confirmed my inclination to investigate the matter.
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> (The data shared on this list was upgraded for published data in the actual data set.)
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> Today, I am considering a different question, namely which emotions languages tend to describe as nouns (rather than words from other classes).
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> In Australian languages this is reasonably easy to investigatehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2024.2329890, due to a relative scarcity of abstract nouns.
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> 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.
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> Any suggestion in this respect will be most welcome !
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> With many thanks again to LingTyp community for such insightful discussions, and for sharing data,
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> Hi Maia,
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> Thanks for this interesting enquiry.
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> In Nen (Yam family, PNG) the commonest way to express emotions is through an experiencer object construction of the type:
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> NP<experiencer:object: ABSOLUTIVE> NP<stimulus.transitive.subject: ERGATIVE> V<transitive, agreeing with the stimulus in its subject slot and the experiencer in its object slot>
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> The stimulus NP is usually a bare noun (though it can be modified), and denotes a range of stimulus types including sensations (itchiness, hunger, arousal), ailments (diarrhoea) and emotions (e.g. Anger, exasperation, pity/empathy).
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> You can find a list of these stimulus nouns in Table 1.1 on p. 17-18 of the attached soon-to-appear article.
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> This construction is widespread in Papuan languages, but we still await a comprehensive survey of the emotion nouns that occur in it; certainly the list of Nen emotion nouns included here is far from complete.
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> Best Nick
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> Dear all,
> 
> 
> Nearly two years ago, several of you responded to a query on this list regarding pain interjections.
> 
> With the help of Christophe Coup?, Kasia Pisanski, Fran?ois Pellegrino and Aitana Garcia Arasco, we took this further and identified puzzling form-meaning correlations in pain interjectionshttps://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 investigatehttps://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,
> 
> Ma?a
> 
> 
> Ma?a Ponsonnet
> 
> Charg?e de Recherche HDR @ CNRS Dynamique Du Langage
> 
> 14, avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, FRANCE -- +33 4 72 72 65 46
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> Adjunct @ University of Western Australia
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