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Some facts of Seneca kinship semantics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

Paul Kay
Paul Kay
Affiliation:
International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704. paulkay@berkeley.eduwww.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay
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Abstract

Jones's analysis of Seneca kinship semantics gets some of the facts about close relatives wrong, and his mechanism for extending the analysis to distant relatives does not work.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 388 - 389
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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References

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