[Lingtyp] Body and soul / body and mind

[Marianne Mithun]

Dear Masha and All,

Northern Iroquoian languages contain sizable inventories of verbs with
incorporated nouns 'body', 'mind', or 'matter (affair)', which group
concepts into those with physical, mental, or abstract effects.

Marianne

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 7:27 AM Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I’ve got a question from a colleague working in health psychology about
> the dichotomies such as “body vs. soul”, “body vs. mind” etc, as opposed to
> “person”, “human being etc.: how spread are these across the cultures and
> languages of the world? I know that a number of languages lack a dedicated
> word for ‘body’, but not so much about the distinction between the physical
> and non-physical aspects of human beings.
>
> I would be grateful for any information / references / pointers.
>
> All the best,
> Maria / Masha
>
> Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
> Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University
> 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> tel.: +46-8-16 26 20
> tamm at ling.su.se
> http://www.ling.su.se/tamm
>
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