- Title
- Subsection terminologies in Northern Australia: conceptual and lexical diffusion
- Creator
- Harvey, Mark
- Relation
- ARC.DP140100863 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100863
- Relation
- Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 60, Issue 2, p. 110-156
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Default lexical diffusion involves diffusion of phonological forms and their associated semantics. Subsections are a domain in sociocentric kin classification, whose spread shows full, partial, and null matches between conceptual diffusion and diffusion of terminologies. This offers a rare opportunity to analyse correlations between conceptual and linguistic diffusion. These correlations are modelled using social network theory: partial conceptual diffusion correlates with rapid increase in weak ties: partial lexical diffusion with lesser change in weak ties. Subsection terminologies are widely diffused, and are therefore wanderwörter. However, they constitute a distinctive subclass as a lexical domain is diffused and not individual words.
- Subject
- lexical diffusion; Northern Australia; phonological forms; semantics; conceptual diffusion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403139
- Identifier
- uon:35111
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-5483
- Language
- eng
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