Re: The place structure of {speni} in regards to cultural neutrality

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> > To say that a group of people are mutually married, we can
> > use {spesi'u}, but I'm not sure how we can get a place structure
> > like "x1, x2, x3, x4 ... are in a marriage together".
>
> We could have a "married" predicate in which the first argument is a
> group, which says that all the members of the group are married together.
> Similar to the thing they did for {casnu}.
>
> Now, I wonder if, in cultures that have polygyny, whether the wives refer
> to any one of their co-wives by the same word that their husband uses to
> refer to any one of his wives?


da'inai lo fetspe na speni na'ebo le fy. nakspe .i le si'o speni do'e
za'ure cu carmi cnino .i xu fatci



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United States Supreme Court, U.S. v. Robel (1967)


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