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Savosavo Kinship Terminology: Social Context and Linguistic Features
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 52, Number 2, December 2013
- pp. 318-340
- 10.1353/ol.2013.0028
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Savosavo kinship terminology is remarkable in that it covers fifteen generations, a feature unique in its immediate geographical context, the Solomon Islands, and rare cross-linguistically. The aim of this paper is to present the kinship terminology system of the easternmost Papuan language from both an anthropological and a linguistic perspective, thus providing a comprehensive account of the terms, the system they form, their morphosyntactic and pragmatic features, and how they are used in everyday life. Both consanguineal and affinal kin are considered.