《国立历史语言研究.中央研究院》miao_and_chinese_kin_logic_国立中央研究院历史语言研究所集刊
Miao and ChineseKin Logic terms for males are abbreviated to capitals,for women to lower-case letters.Parents-Children—The meanings are the same in the two systems:F,m, S,d.Siblings-The two systems agree in recognizing sex of the sibling and usually relative age also.
MiaoandChineseKinLogic to those for whom mpeuis notused,Chinese tang,“hall,added for the children of brothers.Altogether,Chinese has arounda dozen metaphorical terms corresponding tothethreeinMiao.KinWord Modifiers-A second class ofmodifiers in both languages consists ofwords that are themselves
