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François 2013

François, Alexandre. 2013. Shadows of bygone lives: the histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu. In Mailhammer, Robert (ed.), Lexical and structural etymology: Beyond word histories, 185–243. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

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5.2 People: gender, age cohorts and marital status
5.9 Body part metaphors
- POc *qate-
- Terms implicating other body parts
6.6 Recreation: Music, song, dance, games
- Song
- Body decoration
6.7 The spirit world
6.9 Mana
- mana ‘thunder’
6.14 Counting: Numerals and numeral classifiers
- Ceremonial exchange and wealth redistribution
6.16 Linear measurement
- Conclusions

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@incollection{Francois2013,
  address   = {Berlin},
  author    = {François, Alexandre},
  booktitle = {Lexical and structural etymology: Beyond word histories},
  editor    = {Mailhammer, Robert},
  pages     = {185–243},
  publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
  series    = {Studies in Language Change 11},
  title     = {Shadows of bygone lives: the histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu},
  year      = {2013},
  sections  = {None}
}

François 2013

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