@article{oai:kobe-cufs.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002582,
 author = {倉部, 慶太 and KURABE, Keita},
 journal = {研究年報, Journal of Research Institute},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {application/pdf, Animal nomenclature is an area of Tibeto-Burman linguistics that is not often studied. The aim of this paper is to explore the Burmese fauna lexicon in terms of phonology, morphology, and semantics by building on more than 500 animal names in the language. Some animal names are susceptible to phonological reduction that leads to their morphosemantic opacification. Compounding, as with neighboring languages, is the most productive morphological processes underpinning the large number of Burmese faunal terms. Simplex animal names, by contrast, tend to express basic level categories. Very productive semantic categories in Burmese animal names are “locational/habitational” (e.g., “mountain quail”) and “appearance” (e.g., “pinecone-shaped fish”). The rich array of Burmese animal names showcases the intra- and inter-kingdom association, where animal or plant names are modified by other animal or plant names (e.g., “eagle snake”, “leaf bug”, “sparrow flower”, etc.). Burmese also has rich examples of metaphorical animal names, as illustrated by the example of “sea bread”, which expresses ‘starfish’., Tokyo University of Foreign Studies},
 pages = {65--84},
 title = {The Phonology, Morphology, and Semantics of Burmese Zoonyms},
 volume = {61},
 year = {2021}
}