Binomials and the Noun-to-Verb Ratio in Puma Rai Ritual Speech

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3777848
AutoresMartin Gaenszle (0000-0002-0782-1413, University of Vienna), Balthasar Bickel (0000-0002-9087-0565, University of Zurich), Narayan P Sharma (0000-0002-8837-6939, Leipzig University), Jonathan Pettigrew (0000-0002-4519-5978), Judith Pettigrew, Angshu Rai (0000-0001-9578-6971), Arjun Rai, Shree Kumar, Shree Kumar Rai, Diana Schackow (Leipzig University)
Año2011
Volumen53
Número4
Páginas365-382
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anl.2011.0021
OpenAlexW2072411150
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in the two major ritual speech genres (shamanic and priestly invocations). It is argued that the increase of nouns in the ritual language under study leads to an inversion of the noun-to-verb ratio in relation to ordinary speech

Linguistics · Noun · Verb · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · History · Philosophy