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

[Pun Ho Lui]

Hi Ruth, if I may,

I am writing the 'typology of language names' in which there is a section
of 'typology of language markers'.

The 'language marker' is the item that gives another item the language
status. E.g. weng 'language' in Mian weng 'Mian language'.

There are a bunch of semantically related items attested e.g. mouth,
matter, thought, talk, etc, and i believe they in line with your student's
interest.

To my knowledge, I haven't stumbled on any paper dedicated to this matter.

Warmest,
Joe





在 2024年5月2日週四 下午3:11，Ruth Singer via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> 寫道：

> 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
>
> --
>
> Dr Ruth Singer
>
> Australian Research Council Future Fellow
>
> Research Unit for Indigenous Language
>
> School of Languages and Linguistics
>
> University of Melbourne
>
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>
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>
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