Body part terms in Jahai  

Oleh:

Burenhult, Niclas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 28 no. 2-3 (2006), page 162–180.
Topik: Jahai; Mon-Khmer; Body part terms; Partonomy; Meronymy; Semantic fields; Semantic generality; Ambiguity
Fulltext: 28_02-03_Burenhult.pdf (260.96KB)

Isi artikel

This article explores the lexicon of body part terms in Jahai, a Mon-Khmer language spoken by a group of hunter–gatherers in the Malay Peninsula. It provides an extensive inventory of body part terms and describes their structural and semantic properties. The Jahai body part lexicon pays attention to fine anatomical detail but lacks labels for major, ‘higher-level’ categories, like ‘trunk’, ‘limb’, ‘arm’ and ‘leg’. In this lexicon it is therefore sometimes difficult to discern a clear partonomic hierarchy, a presumed universal of body part terminology.

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