The semantic complexity of Hausa kinship terms
This study aims at analysing the absolute semantic complexity of kin terms in Hausa, i.e. to measure the amount of semantic information of individual kin terms. Each kin term is defined by a set of sufficient and necessary conditions (i.e. properties and relations) derived from the construction of a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2023-12-01
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Series: | Topics in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2023-0009 |