Abstract The Hindu Kush, or the mountain region of northern Pakistan, north-eastern Afghanistan and the northern-most part of the Indian-administered Kashmir region, is home to approximately 50 languages belonging to six different genera: Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Sino-Tibetan, Turkic and the isolate Burushaski. Areality research on this region is only in its early stages, and while its significance as a convergence area has been suggested by several scholars, only a few, primarily phonological and grammatical, features have been studied in a more systematic fashion. Cross-linguistic research in the realms of semantics and lexical organization has been given considerably less attention. However, preliminary findings indicate that features are geographically bundled with one another, across genera, in significant ways, displaying semantic areality on multiple levels throughout the region or in one or more of its sub-regions. The present study is an areal-typological investigation of kinship terms in the region, in which particular attention is paid to a few notable polysemy patterns and what appears to be a significant geographical clustering of these. Comparisons are made between the geographical distribution of such patterns and those of some other linguistic features as well as with relevant non-linguistic factors related to shared cultural values or identities and a long history of small-scale cross-community interaction in different parts of the region.

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亲属关系术语揭示了兴都库什地区的古代接触区

摘要 兴都库什地区，即巴基斯坦北部、阿富汗东北部和印控克什米尔地区最北部的山区，拥有属于六个不同属的大约 50 种语言：印度-雅利安语、伊朗语、努里斯坦语，汉藏，突厥和孤立的布鲁沙斯基。对该地区的地域性研究仅处于早期阶段，虽然一些学者已经提出了它作为一个融合地区的意义，但只有少数特征，主要是语音和语法，得到了更系统的研究。语义和词汇组织领域的跨语言研究很少受到关注。然而，初步调查结果表明，地理特征在地理上相互捆绑，跨属，以显着的方式，在整个区域或其一个或多个子区域的多个层次上显示语义区域。本研究是对该地区亲属关系术语的区域类型学调查，其中特别关注一些显着的多义模式以及这些似乎是重要的地理聚类。将这些模式的地理分布与其他一些语言特征的地理分布以及与共享文化价值或身份相关的相关非语言因素以及在不同地区的小规模跨社区互动的悠久历史进行了比较。地区。其中特别关注了一些值得注意的多义模式以及这些模式的重要地理聚集。将这些模式的地理分布与其他一些语言特征的地理分布以及与共享文化价值或身份相关的相关非语言因素以及在不同地区的小规模跨社区互动的悠久历史进行了比较。地区。其中特别关注了一些值得注意的多义模式以及这些模式的重要地理聚集。将这些模式的地理分布与其他一些语言特征的地理分布以及与共享文化价值或身份相关的相关非语言因素以及在不同地区的小规模跨社区互动的悠久历史进行了比较。地区。