Re: OT: Language & clans? Re: OT: Ukraine
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 5, 2004, 22:01 |
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On Sunday 05 December 2004 13:40, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> I understood John's statement to mean that there exist kinship systems
> where all kinship terms are reciprocal, rather then "there exist kinship
> systems where there exist terms that are reciprocal". I'm intruiged now as
> to whether that's what he meant. It wouldn't seem to fit into the
> Sudanese-Hawaiian- Eskimo-Iroquois-Omaha-Crow (SHEIOC? SHECIO? HESICO?
> SEHICO?) classification, but maybe it's more a feature of discourse, rather
> than of the underlying kinship system.
>
I would like to see a kinship system in which all the terms are reciprocal.
I've kinda wanted that for Kelen, but I'm not sure how it would work,
exactly. I can imagine a Keleñi person saying:
selneñ anpára for 'we (paucal, exclusive (hence, dual)) are mo-dau-relation'
But then, I think they also use animate nouns, like:
mapára for 'mother, mother's-sister'.
maláca for 'daughter, girl, young woman'.
-S
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