FOLKLORE, LINGUISTICS, ONOMASTICS ... - Kinship Studies

FOLKLORE
LINGUISTICS
GENERAL
FOLKLORE, LINGUISTICS, ONOMASTICS
Agha, Asif.
2006. Norm and Trope in Kinship Behavior. Texas Linguistics Forum 49: 1-21.
Agha, Asif.
2007. Language and Social Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Pp. 340-
385: “Norm and Trope in Kinship Behavior.”]
Arutyunov, Sergei. HAVE
1980. Ethnography and Linguistics. In Soviet and Western Anthropology, edited by
Ernest Gellner. Pp. 257-263. Duckworth.
Boas, Franz.
1911. Introduction. In Handbook of American Indian Languages, edited by Franz Boas.
Vol. 1. Pp. 5-83. Washington: Government Printing Office. (Bulletin of the Bureau of
American Ethnology 40.) [Pp. 72-73: the linguistic and the social in kin terminologies.]
Brown, Cecil H., and Stanley R. Witkowski. HAVE
1981. Figurative Language in a Universalist Perspective. American Ethnologist 8 (3):
596-615.
Casselberry, Samuel E. HAVE
1973. Familingual and Familinear Relationships: Companion Terms and Concepts.
American Anthropologist 75 (1): 310-312.
Chatterjee, Pranab. HAVE
1972. Familingual and Familinear Relationships: Two Patterns of Control by the
Invoking of Family Roles. American Anthropologist 74 (1-2): 231-241.
Chatterjee, Pranab. HAVE
1974. Familingual and Familinear Relationships: Some Contexts of Negation or Denial.
American Anthropologist 76 (4): 847-849.
Horton, Robert. HAVE
1979. Material-Object Language and Theoretical Language: Towards a Strawsonian
Sociology of Thought. In Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, edited by S. C.
Brown. Pp. 197-224. Sussex: Harvester Press, and New Jersey: Humanities Press. [While
not directly on kinship, this article makes a claim about the varying degrees of conceptual
elaboration of human vs. natural worlds in Western and tribal societies.]
Kroeber, Alfred L. HAVE
1941. Some Relations of Linguistics and Ethnology. Language 17 (4): 287-291.
Lamb, Sydney M. HAVE
1965. Kinship Terminology and Linguistic Structure. American Anthropologist 67 (5, pt.
2): 37-64.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. HAVE
1951. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws. American Anthropologist 53 (2): 155-
163.
Translated into the French as “Langage et Société” in: Anthropologie Structurale, by
Claude Lévi-Strauss. Pp. 63-75. Paris: Librarie Plon, 1958.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. HAVE
1953. Chapter I. (Linguistics and Anthropology). In Results of the Conference of
Anthropologists and Linguists, Memoir 8: 1-10. Baltimore: Waverley Press.
Translated into the French as “Linguistique et Anthropology” in: Anthropologie
Structurale, by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Pp. 77-91. Paris: Librarie Plon, 1958.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
1958. Postface aux chapitres III et IV. In Anthropologie Structurale, by Claude Lévi-
Strauss. Pp. 93-110. Paris: Librarie Plon. [Postscript to Lévi-Strauss 1951 and Lévi-
Strauss 1953.]
Lounsbury, Floyd G.
1968. Linguistics and Psychology. In Psychology: A Study of a Science. Vol. 6, edited by
Sigmund Koch. Pp. 552-582. New York: McGraw & Hill. [Pp. 55-58: on kin
terminologies as systems of classification.]
Reprinted in: Readings in the Sociology of Language, edited by Joshua A. Fishman. pp.
38-67. The Hague: Mouton.
Merten, Stephen. HAVE
1994. Die sprachliche und gesellschaftliche Interpretation von Welt: Farben und
Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen. Sociologus 44 (2): 149-165. [Cross-listed in
AUSTROASIATIC and INDO-EUROPEAN.]
Moore, Omar K., and David L. Olmsted. HAVE
1952. Language and Professor Levi-Strauss. American Anthropologist 54 (1): 116-119.
[Critique of Lévi-Strauss 1951.]
Overing, Joanna.
1985. Today I Shall Call Him ‘Mummy’: Multiple Worlds and Classificatory Confusion.
In Reason and Morality, edited by Joanna Overing. Pp. 152-179. London and New York:
Tavistock Publications. [Cross-listed in SALIVAN.]
Spence, N.
1964. The Basic Problem of Ethnolinguistics. Archivum Linguisticum 16 (2): 145-156. [A
review of neo-Humboldtian linguistics, with some discussion of kin terms in the context
of the relativity hypothesis.]
ACQUISITION
FIRST LANGUAGE
Anglin, Jeremy M.
1977. Word, Object, and Conceptual Development. New York: W. W. Norton. [P. 34: kin
terms like mommy and daddy as the earliest words acquired by children.]
Anglin, Jeremy M.

1995. The Order of Acquisition of Object Names and Kin Terms During Childhood. In
Studies in Applied Psychosemiotics, edited by Tatiana Slama-Cazacu, Renzo Titone, and
Marcel Danesi. Pp. 19-52. Toronto, ON: Toronto Semiotic Circle, Victoria College,
University of Toronto.
Baldwin, Lawrence A.
1972. Children’s Structuring of American-English Kinship. Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard
University.
Benson, N., and J. Anglin.
1987. Children’s Knowledge of English Kin Terms. First Language 7: 41-66.
Berthoud-Papandropoulou, I., and E. Thommen.
1993. Acquisition des relations de parenté chez l’enfant, aspects logiques, lexicaux et
énonciatifs. Archives de Psychologie 62: 307-323.
Broeder, Peter, and Guus Extra.
1991. Acquisition of Kinship Reference: A Study on Word Formation Processes of Adult
Language Learners. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 1: 209-227. [Secondlanguage
acquisition; adult Turkish and Moroccan immigrants learning Dutch.]
Carter, Anthony T. HAVE
1984. The Acquisition of Social Deixis: Children’s Usages of Kin Terms in Maharashtra,
India. Journal of Child Language 11 (1): 179-201.
Chambers, James C., and Nicholas Travuchis. HAVE
1976. Kids and Kin: Children’s Understanding of American Kin Terms. Journal of Child
Language 3: 63-80.
Clark, Eve V.
1993. The Lexicon in Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Pp. 28, 30:
kin terms among the first words of a child.]
Clausen, M. T. W.
1975. An Anthropological and Psychological Investigation of Use and Understanding of
Kin Terms in English Children. M.A. thesis. University of London.
Clendenen, Nancy M.
1974. Age and Sex Differences in Learning American Kin Terminology: A Preliminary
Study. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arkansas 1 (1): 34-42.
Danziger, Kurt. HAVE
1957. The Child’s Understanding of Kinship Terms: A Study in the Development of
Relational Concepts. Journal of Genetic Psychology 91: 213-232.
Deutsch, Werner. HAVE
1979. The Conceptual Impact of Linguistic Input: A Comparison of German Family-
Children’s and Orphans Acquisition of Kinship Terms. Journal of Child Language 6:
313-327.
Elkind, David. HAVE
1962. Children’s Conception of Brother and Sister: Piaget Replication Study V. Journal
of Genetic Psychology 100: 129-136.

Ervin-Tripp, Susan.
1976. Speech Acts and Social Learning. In Meaning in Anthropology, edited by Keith H.
Basso and Henry A. Selby. Pp. 123-153. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
[Especially pp. 142-143: kin terms in the child’s address system.]
Ferguson, Charles A. HAVE
1977. Baby Talk as a Simplified Register. In Talking to Children: Language Input and
Acquisition. Papers from a Conference Sponsored by the Committee on Sociolinguistics
of the Social Science Research Council (USA), edited by Catherine E. Snow and Charles
A Ferguson. Pp. 209-235. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [P. 220: baby kin
terms vs. adult kin terms (example from Japanese).]
Gamble, Thomas J.
1982. Cognizing the Social World: An Investigation into the Emergence of Generative
Relational Structures for Kin Inference. Ph.D. dissertation. Syracuse University. 211 P.
Gentner, Dedre, and Lera Boroditsky. HAVE
2001. Individuation, Relativity and Early Word Learning. In Language Acquisition and
Conceptual Development, edited by Melissa Bowerman and Stephen C. Levinson. Pp.
215-256. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Goldfield, Beverly A; Snow, Catherine E.
1992. ‘What’s Your Cousin Arthur’s Mommy's Name?’: Features of Family Talk about
Kin and Kin Terms. First Language 12 (2): 187-205.
Greenfield, Patricia M. HAVE
1973. Who Is ‘dada’?: Some Aspects of the Semantic and Phonological Development of
a Child’s First Words. Language and Speech 16: 34-43.
Greenfield, Patricia M.
1983. Ontogenesis, Use, and Representation of Cultural Categories: A Psychological
Perspective. In The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct, edited by Bruce
Bain. Pp. 109-130. New York: Plenum. [Includes kin terms.]
Greenfield, Patricia M., and Carla P. Childs. HAVE
1977. Understanding Sibling Concepts: A Developmental Study of Kin Terms in
Zinacantan. In Piagetian Psychology: Cross-Cultural Contributions, edited by Pierre R.
Dasen. Pp. 335-358. New York: Gardner Press.
Haviland, Susan E., and Eve V. Clark.
1973. “This Man’s Father Is My Father’s Son”: A Study of the Acquisition of English
Kin Terms. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 5: 1-30. Stanford, CA.
Haviland, Susan E., and Eve V. Clark. HAVE
1974. ‘This Man’s Father Is My Father’s Son’: A Study of the Acquisition of English Kin
Terms. Journal of Child Language 1: 23-47.
Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. HAVE
1989. Rethinking the Acquisition of Kinship Terms. International Journal of Behavioral
Development 12 (4): 541-568.
Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. HAVE
1994. On Childhood Cognition and Social Institutions. Man 29 (4): 976-977.

Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. HAVE
2001. On a Folk Theory of Society: Children, Evolution, and Mental Representations of
Social Groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review 5 (2): 107-117.
Jordan, Valerie B.
1977. Conserving Kinship Concepts: A Developmental Study in Social Cognition. Ph.D.
dissertation (Psychology). City University of New York. 152 P.
Jordan, Valerie B.
1980. Conserving Kinship Concepts: A Developmental Study in Social Cognition. Child
Development 51 (1): 146-155.
Keil, Frank C., and Nancy Batterman.
1984. A Characteristic-to-Defining Shift in the Development of Word Meaning. Journal
of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 23: 221-236. [Includes the discussion of the two
stages in the acquisition of meaning of kin terms.]
Kernan, Keith T.
1967. Parental Baby Talk. In Field Manual for Cross-Cultural Study of the Acquisition of
Communicative Competence, edited by Daniel I. Slobin. Pp. 42-45. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
Kuczaj, Stan A.
1984. Development of the Kinship Term Semantic System in English Speaking Children.
In Proceedings of the Second International Congress for the Study of Child Language,
Vol. II, edited by Carol L. Thew and Carolyn E. Johnson. Pp. 194-203. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America.
Landau, Barbara. HAVE
1982. Will the Real Grandmother Please Stand Up? The Psychological Reality of Dual
Meaning Representations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 11 (1): 47-62.
LeVine, Robert A., and Douglass R. Price-Williams.
1974. Children's Kinship Concepts: Cognitive Development and Early Experience among
the Hausa. Ethnology 13 (10: 25-44.
Luong, Hy Van. HAVE
1986. Language, Cognition, and Ontogenetic Development: A Reexamination of Piaget’s
Premises. Ethos 14 (1): 7-46. [Kin term acquisition as exemplified by Vietnamese. Crosslisted
in AUSTROASIATIC.]
Macaskill, Ann. HAVE
1981. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development in the Acquisition of Kinship
Terms. British Journal of Educational Psychology 51 (3): 283-290.
Macaskill, Ann. HAVE
1982. Egocentricity in the Child and Its Effect on the Child’s Comprehension of Kin
Terms. British Journal of Psychology 73: 305-311.
Macaskill, Ann. HAVE
1981. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development in the Acquisition of Kinship
Terms. British Journal of Educational Psychology 51: 283-290.

Macaskill, Ann. HAVE
1982. Egocentricity in the Child and Its Effect on the Child’s Comprehension of Kin
Terms. British Journal of Psychology 73: 305-311.
McLaughlin, B. et al.
1983. Mothers' and Fathers’ Speech to Their Young Children; Similar or Different?
Journal of Child Language 10: 245-252.
Marinis, Theodore. HAVE
1999. What Can the Acquisition of Proper Names and Kinship Terms Tell Us About the
Acquisition of the DP. In Proceedings of CLS’ 99, edited by I. Barrière, S. Chiat, G.
Morgan, and B. Wolf. London: City University Press.
Milicic, Bojka.
2011. Is There a Kinship Modukle?: Evidence from Children’s Acquisition of Kinship
Terms in Pitumarca, Peru. In Kinship, Language and Prehistory: Per Hage and the
Renaissance in Kinship Studies, edited by Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic. Pp. 212-222.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Nelson, Agatha P.
1992. Is a Father a Daddy? A Developmental Study of Children’s Definitions of Parental
Kinship Terms. Ph.D. dissertation. City University of New York.
Piaget, Jean.
1928. Judgment and Reasoning in the Child. Translated from the French by Marjorie
Warden. New York: Harcourt, Brace; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. [Pp. 62-
129: acquisition of relational thought. Examples of kin terms.]
Price-Williams, Douglass, Ormond W. Hammond, Ceel Edgerton, and Michael Walker.
1977. Kinship Concepts among Rural Hawaiian Children. In Piagetian Psychology:
Cross-Cultural Contributions, edited by Pierre R. Dasen. Pp. 296-334. New York:
Gardner Press.
Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur.
1990. Systéme Patronimique et Construction des Relations de Parenté chez les Enfants
Islandais. Ph. D. dissertation. Université de Provence Aix-Marseille.
Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur.
1993. Children’s Acquisition of Kinship Concepts: The Role of Language and of
Cognitive Development. In 6 th International Congress for the Study of Child Language.
Trieste Mosetti.
Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur.
1996. Children’s Acquisition of Kinship Concepts: A Cross-Linguistic Study. In 14 th
Biennial Meetings of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development,
Quebec City (Canada), 12-16 Aug 1996.
Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur.
1997. “Uncle Larus, Stefan’s Father, Isn’t He My Brother?” Children’s Acquisition of
Kinship Concepts Nordisk Psykologi 49 (2): 136-158.
Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur.

1999. The Acquisition of Kinship Concepts. In Language and Thought in Development:
Cross-Linguistic Studies, edited by Peter Broeder and Jaap Murre. Pp. 73-94. Tübingen:
Gunter Narr.
Rips, Lance J., and Margaret E. Stubbs. HAVE
1980. Genealogy and Memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 19: 705-
721.
Rondal, J. A.
1980. Fathers' and Mothers' Speech in Early Language Development. Journal of Child
Language 7: 353-369.
Rūke-Dravina, V.
1976. ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’ in Child Language. Journal of Child Language 3: 157-166.
Swartz, Karyl, and Alfred E. Hall. HAVE
1972. Development of Relational Concepts and Word Definition in Children Five
Through Eleven. Child Development 43: 239-244. [Tests of the development of concepts
“brother” and “having a brother.”]
Thomson, Jean R., and Robin S. Chapman. HAVE
1977. Who Is ‘daddy’ Revisited: The Status of Two-Year-Olds’ Over-Extended Words in
Use and Comprehension. Journal of Child Language 4 (3): 359-375.
SECOND LANGUAGE
Alo, Moses A.
1989. A Prototype Approach to the Analysis of Meanings of Kinship Terms in Non-
Native English. Language Sciences 11 (2): 159-176.
Broeder, Peter, and Guus Extra.
1991. Acquisition of Kinship Reference: A Study on Word-Formation Processes of Adult
Language Learners. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 1 (2): 209-227.
APHASIA
Gloning, Karl.
1980. Paraphasien bei Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen. In Paraphasie: Untersuchungen
zum Problem Lexicalischer Fehlleistungen, herausgegeben von Karl Gloning und
Wolfgang U. Dressler. Pp. 61-100. München: Fink.
ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGES
Proechel, Glen. HAVE
1993. Extending Klingon Kinship Terms. HolQeD: The Journal of the Klingon Language
Institute 2 (3): 6.
BORROWING
Haarmann, Harald,
1988. Language in Ethnicity: A View of Basic Ecological Relations. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter. [Pp. 179ff: “Borrowings in the lexical field of kinship terms,” with examples
from Izhorian, German, English, Finnish, Roma and other languages.]

Review: Fayer 1988.
CREOLE LANGUAGES
Williams, J. P.
1988. Women and Kinship in Creole Genesis. International Journal of the Sociology of
Language 71: 81-89.
GRAMMAR
Aikhenvald, Alexandra.
2000. Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. [Pp. 146: kinship possession; 82, 131, 141, 271-272, 280, 284, 305,
306, 342, 353-354, 357-359: kinship as a semantic parameter in noun categorization; 41,
64, 66, 131, 357: kin terms.]
Amith, Jonathan D., and Thomas C. Smith-Stark. HAVE
1994. Predicate Nominal and Transitive Verbal Expressions of Interpersonal Relations.
Linguistics 32: 511-547.
Barker, Chris.
1995. Possessive Descriptions. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Barker, Chris.
1995. Possessive Descriptions. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and
Information.
Blake, Barry J.
2001. Case. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [P. 122, 137-140: animacy
hierarchy, namely pronouns > personal names > kin terms > animates > inanimates, and
its impact on case marking, agreement, advancement, etc.]
Broschart, J.
2004. Possession (Linguistic). In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences: 11831-11834.
Carlson, Robert, and Dorie Payne. HAVE
1989. Genitive Classifiers. In Proceedings of the 4 th Annual Meeting of the Pacific
Linguistics Conference. Pp. 87-119. Eugene, OR: Department of Linguistics, University
of Oregon.
Castillo, Juan C.
2001. Thematic Relations Between Nouns. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Maryland at
College Park. [Pp. 145-162: kinship possession.]
Chappell, Hilary, and William McGregor. HAVE
1989. Alienability, Inalienability and Nominal Classification. In Proceedings of the 15 th
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 18-20, 1989, edited by
Kara Hall, Michael Meacham, and Richard Shapiro. Pp. 24-36. Berkeley: Berkeley
Linguistics Society.
Chappell, Hilary, and William McGregor. HAVE
1996. Prolegomena to a Theory of Inalienability. In The Grammar of Inalienability: A
Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation, edited by

Hilary Chappell and William McGregor. Pp. 3-30. Berlin and New York: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Cienki, Alan. HAVE
1995. The Semantics of Possessive and Spatial Constructions in Russian and Bulgarian:
A Comparative Analysis in Cognitive Grammar. Slavic and East European Journal 39
(1): 73-114. [Pp. 81-82: “On the Semantics of Possession.” General discussion from the
point of view of cognitive grammar. Includes kin terms.]
Dahl, Östen, and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. HAVE
1998. Alienability Splits and the Grammaticalization of Possessive Constructions. In
Papers from the 16 th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Pp. 38-49. Turku:
University of Turku.
Dahl, Östen, and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. HAVE
2001. Kinship in Grammar. In Dimensions of Possession, edited by Irène Baron, Michael
Herslund and Finn Sørensen. Pp. 201-225. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.
Dahl, Östen.
2004. The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. [Pp. 148-153: kin terms and body parts as inalienably possessed.]
Dixon, R. M. W.
2004. Adjective Classes in Typological Perspective. In Adjective Classes: A Cross-
Linguistic Typology, edited by R. M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Pp. 1-49.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. [P. 2: kin terms as nouns and as verbs.]
Emeneau, Murray B. HAVE
1950. Language and Non-Linguistic Patterns. Language 26 (2): 199-209. [Kinship
possession and kinship pronouns. Examples from Toda and Vietnamese.]
Gerlach, Birgit. HAVE
2002. Review of Vogel, Petra M. and Bernard Comrie (eds.), Approaches to the Typology
of Word Classes. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in Language 25 (3):
663-679. [P. 667: summary of Evans 2002.]
Evans, Nicholas. HAVE
2000. Kinship Verbs. In Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes, edited by Petra M.
Vogel and Bernard Comrie. Pp. 103-172. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Evans, Nicholas. HAVE
2003. An Interesting Couple: The Semantic Development of Dyad Morphemes. Köln:
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln. (Arbeitspapier 47.) [Extensively on
kin term dyads. Data from Australian, Oceanic and Khoisan langauges.]
Haspelmath, Martin.
1999. Explaining Article-Possessor Complementarity: Economic Motivation in Noun
Phrase Syntax. Language 75 (2): 227-243. [Pp. 235-236: kinship possession and definite
articles. Examples from several languages.]
Haspelmath, Martin.
2005. Occurrence of Nominal Plurality. In The World Atlas of Language Structures,
edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Pp.

142-145. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Implicational scales of plurality marking and
the high position of kin terms on them, with examples from world languages.]
Jones, Alex I. HAVE
1992. Case and Kinship: Grammar as a Social Narrative in Old English. Parergon 10 (2):
59-70.
Jonsson, Niklas. HAVE
2001. Kin Terms in Grammar. In Language Typology and Language Universals: An
International Handbook, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf
Oesterreicher and Wolfgang Raible. Vol. 2. P. 1203-1214. Berlin and New York: Walter
de Gruyter.
Keenan, Edward.
1987. A Semantic Definition of “Indefinite NP”. In The Representation of
(In)definiteness, edited by Eric J. Reuland and Alice G. B. ter Meulen. Pp. 286-318.
Cambridge: MIT Press. [Includes discussions of kinship possession.]
Kleiber, Georges. HAVE
1999. Les noms relationnels en anaphore associative: Le cas des noms de parenté. Studi
Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 28 (2): 283-300.
Langacker, Ronald W. HAVE
1993. Reference-Point Constructions. Cognitive Linguistics 4 (1): 1-38. [A theory
applicable to kinship, ownership and body parts. On kin terms see especially pp. 8-9.]
Langendonck, Willy van.
2007. Theory and Typology of Proper Names. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
[P. 127: the special treatment of kin terms in English appositive constructions such as
George the singer vs. George my brother.]
Mallinson, Graham, and Barry J. Blake.
1981. Language Typology: Cross-Linguistic Studies of Syntax. Amsterdam, New York
and Oxford: North Holland Publishing Company. [Pp. 48-49, 50, 52, 59, 62, 63, 65, 67-
69, 71, 76, 80-93, 114-115, 161, 166, 172, 400: noun subclasess (kin terms, personal
names, pronouns, etc.) and their grammatical behavior.]
Moravcsik, Edith.
2003. A Semantic Analysis of Associative Plurals. Studies in Language 27 (3): 469-503.
Müller, Friedrich. HAVE
1860. Das grammatische Geschlecht (Genus). Ein sprachwissenschaftlicher Versuch.
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on the gender marking of kin terms.]
Nichols, Johanna.
1986. On Form and Content in Typology. In Language Typology 1985: Papers from the
Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9-13 December 1985, edited by Winfred P.
Lehmann. Pp. 141-162. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Earlier version of
Nichols 1988.]
Nichols, Johanna. HAVE

1988. On Alienable and Inalienable Possession. In In Honor of Mary Haas: From the
Haas Festival Conference on Native American Linguistics, edited by William Shipley.
Pp. 557-609. Berlin, etc.: Mouton de Gruyter.
Nichols, Johanna.
1992. Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nichols, Johanna.
1993. Diachronically Stable Structural Features. In Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected
Papers from the 11 th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16-
20 August 1993, edited by Henning Andersen. Pp. 337-355. Amsterdam and
Philadelphia: Benjamins. [Not directly on kin terms, but continues Nichols 1986, 1988,
1992.]
Nichols, Johanna, and Balthasar Bickel.
2005a. Alienable and Inalienable Possession. In The World Atlas of Language Structures,
edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nichols, Johanna, and Balthasar Bickel.
2005b. Head-Marking and Dependent-Marking. In The World Atlas of Language
Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard
Comrie. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nichols, Johanna, and Balthasar Bickel.
2005c. Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases. In The World Atlas of Language
Structures, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard
Comrie. Pp. 242-245. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nichols, Johanna, and Balthasar Bickel.
2005d. Obligatory Possessive Inflection. In The World Atlas of Language Structures,
edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Pp.
238-241. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nichols, Johanna, and Balthasar Bickel.
2005e. Possessive Classification. In The World Atlas of Language Structures, edited by
Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Pp. 242-245.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Partee, Barbara H., and Vladimir Borschev.
1998. Integrating Lexical and Formal Semantics: Genitives, Relational Nouns, and Type-
Shifting. Proceedings of the Second Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and
Computation, edited by R. Cooper and Tamaz Gamkrelidze. Pp. 229-241. Tbilisi: Center
on Language, Logic, Speech, Tbilisi State University.
Partee, Barbara H., and Vladimir Borschev.
2000. Genitives, Relational Nouns, and the Argument-Modifier Distinction. In
Approaching the Grammar of Adjuncts, edited by C. Fabricius-Hansen, E. Lang and C.
Maienborn. Pp. 177-201. Berlin: Humboldt University. (Papers in Linguistics, Zentrum
für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 17.)
Partee, Barbara H., and Vladimir Borschev.

2001. Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives. In Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics,
and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, edited by R. M. Harnish and Istvan
Kenesei. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pica, Pierre. HAVE
1988. Du caractère inalienable de l’être. In Transparence et Opacité: Littérature et
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ONOMASTICS
NECRONYMS
Needham, Rodney. HAVE
1959a. Mourning-Terms. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde 115 (1): 58-89.
Needham, Rodney. HAVE
1959b. Mourning Terms. Anthropos 54: 990.
PERSONAL NAMES

Barnes, R. H. HAVE
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Burguière, André.
1983. Prénoms et parenté. L’Uomo 7 (1-2).
Finch, Janet.
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Trnka, Bogumil.
1982. A Theory of Proper Names. In Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics:
Contributions to English and General Linguistics Written in the Years 1928-1978, edited
by Vile'm Fried. Pp. 81-85. Berlin, etc.: Mouton. [P. 83: names and kin terms.]
SURNAMES
COLLECTIONS
Brunet, Guy, Pierre Darlu, and Gianna Zei.(eds.)
2002. Le Patronyme: Histoire, Anthropologie, Sociètè. Paris: CNRS.
GENERAL
Bond, A.
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Quarterly 10 (1): 17-27.
Brunet, Guy, and Alain Bideau. HAVE
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5 (2): 153-160.
SIGN LANGUAGE
Delaporte, Yves.
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en langues des signes. Ethnologie Française 30 (1): 83-95.
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Massone, Maria I., and Robert E. Johnson.
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Peng, Fred C. C.
1974. Kinship Signs in Japanese Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 5: 31-47.
TRANSLATION and INTERPRETATION
De Vries, Lourens.
2008. Language and Bible Translation in Clan-Based Speech Communities. Bible
Translator 59 (3): 121-136.

Larson, Mildred L.
1975. A Manual for Problem Solving in Bible Translation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
[Includes sections of the analysis of components of meaning in kin terms and on
inalienable possession.]