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

[Peter Bakker]

Ruth, you can check the colexifications database CLICS, under concepts like tongue, speak and language. This is a link to 'language':

https://clics.clld.org/parameters/1307#1/21/1

https://clics.clld.org<https://clics.clld.org/parameters/1307#1/21/1>

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


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

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Research Unit for Indigenous Language

School of Languages and Linguistics

University of Melbourne

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