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Kin Term Polysemy

Kin Term Polysemy is a linguistic phenomenon in which a single kinship term refers to multiple distinct kinship relations within a kinship terminology system, thereby reflecting a non-one-to-one mapping between lexical forms and genealogical categories.

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Cognitive Aspects of English Kin Terms

A. Kimball Romney, Roy G. D’Andrade · American Anthropologist · 1964 · 272 citations

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Dyadic and polyadic kin terms in Gooniyandi

William B. McGregor · Anthropological linguistics · 1996 · 103 citations

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Kin Term Patterns and Their Distribution

George Peter Murdock · Ethnology · 1970 · 78 citations · Full text

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Sign metonymies and the problem of flora-fauna polysemy in Australian linguistics

California Digital Library · 1997 · 40 citations · Full text

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Linguistic evidence for polysemy in the mind: a response to William Croft and Dominiek Sandra

Cognitive Linguistics · 2001 · 35 citations

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Authors

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  1. AK
    A. Kimball Romney

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    1 publications · 272 citations

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  2. WB
    William B. McGregor

    Aarhus University, Denmark

    1 publications · 103 citations

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  3. RG
    Roy G. D’Andrade

    University of California San Diego, United States

    1 publications · 272 citations

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  4. GP
    George Peter Murdock

    Yale University, United States

    1 publications · 78 citations

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  5. HW
    Harold W. Scheffler

    Yale University, United States

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

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    2 publications

    544 citations

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  1. Ethnology

    1 publications · 78 citations

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  2. Cognitive Linguistics

    1 publications · 35 citations

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  3. American Anthropologist

    1 publications · 272 citations

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  4. Anthropological linguistics

    1 publications · 103 citations

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  5. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology

    1 publications · 16 citations

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