The human body is a hierarchical system constituted of corporal partonomy, defined by basic and universal traits of the human conception, characterized by a hierarchical set of relations, of type "X is part of". For example, the nails are parts of the fingers, the fingers are parts of the hand (Andersen 1978). Already in taxonomic classifications, the elements of a category are conceptualized as "X is a type of", for example, the rose is a type of flower, trout is a type of river fish (McClure 1975). Considering these two types of classification, a brief description of the partonomy in Mehinaku language (Arawak) is presented. The terms of parts of the body are approached considering the morphological structure of this language and its occur...
This article is a study of words for body parts in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. It contains one des...
Segmentation (and, indeed, definition) of the human body in Kuuk Thaayorre (a Paman language of Cape...
A number of the world’s languages have a special morpheme marking a generic human participant or pos...
El cuerpo humano es un sistema jerárquico constituido de partonomía corporal, definido por rasgos bá...
This paper analyses the vocabulary of body parts in Cha’palaachi, an Amerindian language of the Repu...
This paper describes the terminology used to describe parts of the body in Ye´lıˆ Dnye, the Papuan l...
In this project, we are researching body parts as sources for classifiers in Central and South Ameri...
The Arawak language family is the largest in South America in terms of its geographical spread, from...
This paper presents a survey of the body part domain in the Mon-Khmer lan-guage Kammu. The descripti...
This paper explores body part terms in Lavukaleve, a Papuan isolate spoken in the Solomon Islands. T...
The human body is unique - it is both an object of perception and the source of human experience. It...
In this thesis I describe the morphology of nouns in the Ugoroŋmo language (Arara of Pará), which is...
In many languages, terms denoting the human body and its parts constitute a closed subclass of nouns...
This paper presents a survey of the body part domain in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. The descriptiv...
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the indigenous Maya distinction between two types ...
This article is a study of words for body parts in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. It contains one des...
Segmentation (and, indeed, definition) of the human body in Kuuk Thaayorre (a Paman language of Cape...
A number of the world’s languages have a special morpheme marking a generic human participant or pos...
El cuerpo humano es un sistema jerárquico constituido de partonomía corporal, definido por rasgos bá...
This paper analyses the vocabulary of body parts in Cha’palaachi, an Amerindian language of the Repu...
This paper describes the terminology used to describe parts of the body in Ye´lıˆ Dnye, the Papuan l...
In this project, we are researching body parts as sources for classifiers in Central and South Ameri...
The Arawak language family is the largest in South America in terms of its geographical spread, from...
This paper presents a survey of the body part domain in the Mon-Khmer lan-guage Kammu. The descripti...
This paper explores body part terms in Lavukaleve, a Papuan isolate spoken in the Solomon Islands. T...
The human body is unique - it is both an object of perception and the source of human experience. It...
In this thesis I describe the morphology of nouns in the Ugoroŋmo language (Arara of Pará), which is...
In many languages, terms denoting the human body and its parts constitute a closed subclass of nouns...
This paper presents a survey of the body part domain in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. The descriptiv...
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the indigenous Maya distinction between two types ...
This article is a study of words for body parts in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. It contains one des...
Segmentation (and, indeed, definition) of the human body in Kuuk Thaayorre (a Paman language of Cape...
A number of the world’s languages have a special morpheme marking a generic human participant or pos...