The Buryat Body Parts Names: Face
The Buryat Body Parts Names: Face
Author(s): Bayarma Khabtagaeva-KempfSubject(s): Language studies, Morphology, Semantics
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: body parts names; etymology; semantics; metaphor; derivation; grammaticalization
Summary/Abstract: There are six different terms to refer to the ‘face’ in Buryat. The aim of the present paper is to clarify the difference in the usage of all these various terms: which one is used as a body part anatomically, which one is used mostly with metaphorical meanings, which one has a common meaning as appearance, or whether all of them are used equally in all categories. The terms are explored from etymological, semantic and morphological aspects.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 73/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 617-632
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English