Naming strategies and ethnobiological nomenclature in Kakataibo

The present paper describes and illustrates the main naming strategies attested in a lexical database of 1233 Kakataibo names of plant and animals. Seven naming strategies are proposed for Kakataibo ethnobiological nomenclature: coining, morphological derivation, borrowing, ethnobiological polysemy,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Liames : línguas indígenas americanas 2018-01, Vol.18 (1), p.61
1. Verfasser: Zariquiey, Roberto
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present paper describes and illustrates the main naming strategies attested in a lexical database of 1233 Kakataibo names of plant and animals. Seven naming strategies are proposed for Kakataibo ethnobiological nomenclature: coining, morphological derivation, borrowing, ethnobiological polysemy, compounding and grammatical nominalization (the latter two being exclusively associated with lexically complex forms). Kakataibo ethnobiological terminology overally follows the general word-formation patterns available in the language, but it will be argued that some types of compounds and grammatical nominalizations found in the database are constraint to names of plants and animal. Indeed, one particular type of lexicalized grammatical nominalization seems to be cross-linguistically unusual. KEYWORDS: Kakataibo; Pano; Ethnobiology; Nomenclature; Naming strategies. Este articulo describe e ilustra las principales estrategias para la creacion de nombres atestiguadas en una base de datos lexica de 1233 entradas asociadas a la terminologia de plantas y animales en kakataibo. Se proponen siete estrategias: acunacion, derivacion morfologica, prestamos, polisemia etnobiologica, composicion y nominalizacion gramatical. La terminologia etnobiologica kakataibo sigue esencialmente los patrones de formacion de palabras del kakataibo, pero se puede argumentar que algunos tipos de compuestos y nominalizaciones gramaticales encontrados en la base de datos son exclusivos de los nombres de plantas y animales. En efecto, entre ellos encontramos nominalizaciones gramaticales lexicalizadas que parece ser tipologicamente inusuales. PALAVRAS CLAVES: Kakataibo; Pano; Ethnobiologia; Nomenclatura; Estrategias de nominacion.
ISSN:1678-0531
DOI:10.20396/liames.v18i1.8648612