Typology of Kinship Terms by Larysa Nikolayeva

Peter Lang AG
Typology of Kinship Terms by Larysa Nikolayeva
Product Specifications
  • Title: Typology of Kinship Terms by Larysa Nikolayeva
  • Author: Larysa Nikolayeva
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language reference & general
  • No. of pages: 227
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 158 x 217 x 19

Product Description

This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests typological classification of kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations – universals – are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms.