Lexical Retention and Cultural Significance in Tzeltal-Tzotzil Comparative Ethnobotany. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 29.

Autor/inn/en	Berlin, Brent; und weitere
Institution	California Univ., Berkeley. Language and Behavior Research Lab.
Titel	Lexical Retention and Cultural Significance in Tzeltal-Tzotzil Comparative Ethnobotany. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 29.
Quelle	(1969), (54 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	American Indian Languages; Anthropological Linguistics; Anthropology; Botany; Classification; Comparative Analysis; Diachronic Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Research; Language Usage; Plant Identification; Semantics; Sociocultural Patterns; Tzeltal; Tzotzil; Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anthropologie; Botanik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Linguistics; Diachronische Sprachbetrachtung; Historische Linguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachforschung; Sprachgebrauch; Semantik; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Wortschatz
Abstract	Attempts have been made by linguists and anthropologists to reconstruct aspects of culture history by using synchronically derived lexical data. Related to this concern with culture history is one which attempts to explore the diachronic processes of lexical change over time. As a result of a comparative survey of Tzeltal and Tzotzil ethnobotanical knowledge, this paper presents evidence which demonstrates a positive correlation between lexical retention of plant names and the cultural significance of plant segregates to which plant names refer. While the present study is restricted to the semantic domain of ethnobotany of two languages, it is suggested that the principles at work are general to the ethnobiological lexicon of all languages. (Author/CLK)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC