'Sun' and 'Moon' in the Circum-Pacific Language Area  

Oleh:

Urban, Matthias

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 51 no. 3-4 (2009), page 328-346.
Fulltext: 40929719.pdf (1.43MB)

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This article reports on the peculiar Area distribution of languages lack-ing that express lexical differentiation for the concepts both concepts 'sun* and'moon',i.e.,languages with the same term or use terms that share lexical mate-rial.The but itis also found in indigenous languages phenomenon is largely confined to the Americas, of northeastern Eurasia("Paleosiberian"languages) and languages of New Guinea. A representative sample of the world's languages indicates that the areal distribution of the with the large phenomenon is and old Circum-Pacific language area, strongly correlated that it can be and it is argued interpreted as a historical marker that bears witness to the common history of these languages.

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