Universals and Rule Options in Kinship Terminology
A Synthesis of Three Formal Approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2690182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Woolford (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 771-790 |
| Publication date | 1984-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1984.11.4.02a00090 |
| OpenAlex | W2119413934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 14 |
Extension rules, relational analysis, and componential analysis are integrated into a new generative model of kinship terminology focusing on the universal aspects of kin-term systems. Widely divergent consanguineal systems (Crow-Omaha, Dravidian, Iroquois, and Eskimo) are shown to share a substantial core of rules and to display virtually identical relationships between superordinate categories. Tax's rule of uniform reciprocals applies without exception at the proper level of abstraction. Primary differences between systems, such as cross! parallel phenomena, follow from the interaction of universal rules with a small number of rule options. [kinship terminology, universals, generative model, extension rules, relational analysis, componential analysis
Componential analysis · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic · Generative grammar · Kinship · Linguistic universal · Linguistics · Problem of universals · Sociology · Terminology · Theoretical linguistics · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2012 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |