[Lingtyp] Know of any typological work on the lexico-semantics of words for 'language' cross-linguistically?

[Ruth Singer]

Hi,


Does anyone know of work that compares the meanings of words for
'language'  E.g. in the Indigenous Australian language Mawng that I do
research on, the word *ngaralk *'language' can also mean 'tongue, word' and
other things. This is a relatively common pattern I think. A student is
interested in reading work on this topic, if there has been any published,
along the lines of the work in the special issue below:


Volume 26 Issue 2 - Special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics;
Issue Editors: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Antoinette Schapper and Felix Ameka

Issue of Linguistic Typology

July 6, 2022

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/26/2/html


Cheers,


Ruth

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Dr Ruth Singer

Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Research Unit for Indigenous Language

School of Languages and Linguistics

University of Melbourne

https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger

http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621

 http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
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