Birth-Order Terms in Lisu: Inheritance and Contact  

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Bradley, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 49 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 54-69.
Fulltext: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 54-69.pdf (1.62MB)

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Lisu has complex systems for naming people according to their order of birth and gender. The Eastern Lisu system is mostly cognate with similar systems found in closely related Ngwi languages such as Lipo, and was presumably the original Lisu system. Southern Lisu and Central Lisu name systems combine some terms from this system and some borrowed Chinese numerals with Lisu suffixes marking gender; this structure differs from that of Chinese birth-order terms. Another set of birth-order names as used in Northern Lisu was borrowed from a fairly distantly related Nungish language; these Northern Lisu moved into the Nungish language area a couple of centuries ago. It is striking that very similar varieties of the same language use such different systems of birth-order names, and that such a basic area of social categorization can be replaced in part or in full by borrowed lexical material.

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