Genesis of the Trinity: The Convergent Evolution of Trirelational Kinterms

Blythe, Joe

doi:10.22459/skc.04.2018.13

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“…Among kin one should always use kin terms unless complementing this by a person's name in contexts where ambiguity arises. This is analogous with Australia, where Merlan (1989:229) states that the relationship terms of Australian First Peoples are likewise society-wide, and Blythe (2018) goes as far as associating the evolution of trirelational terms with widespread naming taboos. Other restrictions on names exist.…”

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“…We are not aware of triadic terms occurring outside of the Northern Jê in South America. Terms with similar structure have been identified in some of the languages of the First Peoples of Northern Australia (Blythe 2018). According to McConvell (1982:100), one of the first brief references to "triangular terms" was made by Mervyn Meggitt, in relation to the Warlpiri, in his book Desert People (Meggit 1962).…”

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Triadic Kinship Terms in Mẽbêngôkre: A Linguistic and Anthropological Analysis

Léa¹,

Salanova²

2023

Kinship

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This article compounds the effort of a social anthropologist and a linguist to understand and toanalyze what is known about the triadic terms of the Mẽbêngôkre, a Northern Jê people from Central Brazil. Triadic terms are kinship terms that refer to a single individual but encode at least two kin relations simultaneously: that between the addressee and the referent, and that be-Vanessa would like to thank the Mẽtyktire Mẽbêngôkre for hosting her during numerous visits, in par 1 ticular the late Beriberi and her late son Karupi, the late Kôkônhere and her daughter Kena, and Mẽkarõti (Megaron), who was the main helper in translating her field materials. Lea also thanks her interlocutors in Australia over the years, including Pat McConvell, Nick Evans and Joe Blythe. Andrés would like to thank his Mẽbêngôkre-Xikrin hosts, and, in particular, Ikrô and Bepkamrêk, who have always been available to answer questions. The authors would like to thank Clara Foz and Andrey Nikulin for commenting on an earlier version of this article, and an anonymous reviewer for painstaking corrections.

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Triadic Kinship Terms in Mẽbêngôkre: A Linguistic and Anthropological Analysis

Léa¹,

Salanova²

2023

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“…It is becoming well known that Aboriginal people use many strategies other than the use of names to indicate who they are referring to. Some of this indirect referencing requires much inferencing on the part of hearers, as is amply illustrated in Garde (2013) and Blythe (2018).…”

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Teknocentric kin terms in Australian languages

Koch¹

2020

Meaning, Life and Culture: In Conversation With Anna Wierzbicka

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Australian Indigenous languages have long been known to have systems of kinship terminology that are shared across much of the continent and differ widely from those of well-known European languages. 2 For instance, they typically distinguish between elder and younger siblings, between a mother's and a father's child, between maternal and paternal 'uncles' and 'aunts' (MB vs FB and MZ vs FZ: see note 3 for clarification of abbreviations), between maternal and paternal grandparents (MM vs FM, MF vs FF). 3 On the other hand, some relations are not distinguished terminologically; for example a parent and their same-sex siblings (so F = FB and M = MZ); or siblings and parallel cousins (so FBS or MZS = B, etc.). Another characteristic of Australian kin terminologies is This text is taken from Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, edited by Helen Bromhead and Zhengdao Ye, published 2020 by ANU Press,

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“…Because the Murrinhpatha system is structurally intermediate between the four-patriline Aranda and the two-patriline Kariera systems (Radcliffe-Brown 1930a,b,c, 1931, it was previously thought to be a system in flux (Stanner 1936, Falkenberg 1962. However, over the last eighty years the system has proven to be structurally stable (Keen 2013, Blythe 2018. Although the 'system' appears to be stable, various kinterms do show signs of possible lexical replacement.…”

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“…The supplementary materials referenced here and elsewhere can be accessed at http://muse.jhu.edu /resolve/102.13 The original stimuli list contained two comprehension questions utilizing trirelational kinterms(Blythe 2018). We excluded these from the analysis because these terms are more complex than the regular (binary) kinterms.…”

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Acquiring the lexicon and grammar of universal kinship

Blythe¹,

Tunmuck²,

Mitchell³

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This article investigates how children learn an infinitely expanding 'universal' system of classificatory kinship terms. We report on a series of experiments designed to elicit acquisitional data on (i) nominal kinterms and (ii) sibling-inflected polysynthetic morphology in the Australian language Murrinhpatha. Photographs of the participants' own relatives are used as stimuli to assess knowledge of kinterms, kin-based grammatical contrasts, and kinship principles, across different age groups. The results show that genealogically distant kin are more difficult to classify than close kin, that children's comprehension and production of kinterms are streamlined by abstract merging principles, and that sibling-inflection is learned in tandem with number and person marking in the verbal morphology, although it is not fully mastered until mid to late childhood. We discuss how the unlimited nature of Australian kinship systems presents unusual challenges to the language learner, but suggest that, as everywhere, patterns of language acquisition are closely intertwined with children's experience of their sociocultural environment.*

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Genesis of the Trinity: The Convergent Evolution of Trirelational Kinterms

Cited by 92 publications

References 42 publications

Triadic Kinship Terms in Mẽbêngôkre: A Linguistic and Anthropological Analysis

Triadic Kinship Terms in Mẽbêngôkre: A Linguistic and Anthropological Analysis

Teknocentric kin terms in Australian languages

Acquiring the lexicon and grammar of universal kinship

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