[Lingtyp] languages with few (emotion) nouns

[Cat Butz]

Hi Maïa,

I can add Dalkalaen (Oceanic) to the list of Papuan/Austronesian that 
don't make a lot of use of distinct nouns to express emotions, which are 
generally expressed by saying that specific body part hurts or feels 
bad. There is some specificity though, so while "I'm angry" is just "my 
insides are sore", "I'm scared" is "my skin is scared", with a specific 
verb for "be scared". There is also a noun for "love", and possibly 
others that I'm forgetting / don't know about.

Anyway, seems like this might be a frequent phenomenon in the 
Oceania/Australia area.

Warmest,
---
Cat Butz (she)
HHU Düsseldorf
General Linguistics


Am 10/12/2024 01:12, schrieb PONSONNET Maia via Lingtyp:
> 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
> [1].
> 
> 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 [2],
> 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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> Links:
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> [1] 
> https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/156/5/3118/3319867/Vowel-signatures-in-emotional-interjections-and
> [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2024.2329890
> [3] 
> https://www.universite-lyon.fr/recherche/comite-d-ethique-de-la-recherche/comite-d-ethique-de-la-recherche-245561.kjsp
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