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

[Paolo Ramat]

Hi Ruth,
here some references to a long tradition of Italian studies on language
names:

* In SILVESTRI D. (a cura di) *I termini per le lingue e per le attività
linguistiche "*AION" 27 (2007), 227-253.: IL LESSICO LOGONIMICO
NELL’INSEGNAMENTO DELL’ITALIANO E DELL’INGLESE. METODOLOGIA DI RICERCA E
PRIMI RISULTATI Antonietta *Marra *(Università di Cagliari) Gabriele *Pallotti
*(Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
* Cristina Vallini[image: image.png]
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OHPyDm8AAAAJ&hl=en>
Le parole per le parole. I logonimi nelle lingue e nel metalinguaggio.
C Vallini
(ed.). Il Calamo, Roma 2000.



 *Marra — Silvestri, D., 2000, “Logos e logonimi”, in Vallini (a cura di),
pp. 21-37.
* I LOGONIMI NELLA CLASSE DI LINGUE - Gabriele Pallotti .
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Il giorno gio 2 mag 2024 alle ore 08:20 Pun Ho Lui via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> ha scritto:

> 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
>>
>> https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger
>>
>> http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621
>>
>>  http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
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