proper name
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Russell’s theory of particulars
South American Indian languages
- In South American Indian languages: Vocabulary
Proper names, to which different beliefs are attached, offer a variety of phenomena, among them the practice of naming a parent after a child (called teknonymy) in some Arawakan groups; the repeated change of name according to various fixed stages of development, as in Guayaki;…
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