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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Main Author: Batic Gian Claudio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2023-12-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2023-0009