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LANGUAGE SCIENCES
Volume 28, Issue 2-3, Pages 344-359Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2005.11.005
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Savosavo; Papuan languages; Austronesian; body part terms; partonomy; meronymy; semantic fields
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This paper provides a description of body part terminology used in Savosavo, a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands. The first part of the paper lists the known terms and discusses their meanings. This is followed by an analysis of their structural properties. Finally, the paper discusses partonomic relations in Savosavo and argues that it is difficult to structure the body part terminology hierarchically, because there is no linguistic evidence for part-whole relations between body parts. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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