Partonomy
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A key question in categorisation is to what extent people categorise in the same way, or differently. This paper examines categorisation of the body in Punjabi, an Indo-European language spoken in Pakistan and India. First, an inventory... more
This PhD dissertation offers an updated version of the Old Babylonian lexical list Ugumu, a source that was used as a learning and teaching device for the training in cuneiform writing of the Mesopotamian scribes. This work includes the... more
The domain of the human body is an ideal focus for semantic typology, since the body is a physical universal and all languages have terms referring to its parts. Previous research on body part terms has depended on secondary sources (e.g.... more
hebammenbezeichnungen für die teile des weiblichen geschlechtsorgans bei der überprüfung der jungfräulichkeit im Frankreich des 16. jahrhunderts (course material, spring course 2014) For similar partonymic sets in ancient and medieval... more
Cross-linguistic strategies for mapping lexical and spatial relations from body partonym systems to external object meronymies (as in English 'table leg', 'mountain face') have attracted substantial research and debate over the past three... more
This article takes up the question of how the “partonomy-taxonomy” issue can be formulated within Langacker's theory of cognitive grammar. The discussion concentrates on a comparison of taxonomic hierarchies with one particular model of... more
Human body as a universal possession of human beings constitutes an interesting domain where questions regarding semantic categorisations might be sought crosslinguistically. In the following, we will attempt to describe the terms used to... more