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In:Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
[Culture and Language Use 23] 2024
► pp. ix–x

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Published online: 1 February 2024

Table 3.1Frames of reference51

Table 3.2Tima locative markers54

Table 3.3Tima toponyms56

Table 3.4Meanings of the goal marker60

Table 3.5Relational expressions63

Table 3.6Cardinal directions66

Table 3.7Intrinsic vs. relative frames of reference in Tima79

Table 4.1Metonymic chain from ‘speech organ’ to ‘language’86

Table 4.2Categories for coding polysemy in words for ‘language’90

Table 4.3Polysemous meanings of words for ‘language’ organized by frequency94

Table 4.4Modified version of Table 4.1 that accommodates ‘ear for language’ metonymy99

Table 4.5Words for ‘language’ in Nilotic languages100

Table 6.1Ewe model of a person152

Table 6.2Some personal names based on Sé and Máwú165

Table 9.1Paternal clan names233

Table 9.2Maternal clan names235

Table 9.3Kinship terminology (blood relatives)238

Table 9.4Terms of address in relation to terms of reference239

Table 9.5Affinal kin terms244

Table 9.6dúmúrìk-names with regard to the sequence of birth247

Table 10.1Birth-order names (first series)264

Table 10.2al-Gideel’s children (first series)265

Table 10.3al-Gideel’s children (second series)266

Table 10.4Birth-order names in Tagoi, Tagom and Kwalib267

Table 10.5The names of early kings of Tagoi269

Table 10.6The Islamic/Arabic names of kings of Tagoi270

Table 10.7Islamic/Arabic day-order names271

Table 12.1Intensifiers and their specific color terms315

Table 12.2Derivative suffixes on basic color terms316

Table 12.3Color terminology used for horses and other animals in Wolof327

Table 14.1Morphological structure of the Toposa verb and deverbal nouns369

Table 14.2Verb roots used to express mobility371

Table 14.3Verbal lexicalization and deverbal nouns in the domain of sacrifice379

Table 14.4Verbal lexicalization in the domain of rituals384

Table 14.5The cultural domain of ‘carrying’387

Table 14.6Verbs of cutting388

Table 15.1Types of THL attested in Upper Guinea languages403

Table 15.2Parameters correlated with speech style414

Table 17.1Communicative intentions in different modes of communication462