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Cultural significance and lexical retention in Tzeltal-Tzotzil ethnobotany

Tipo de material: TextoTextoSeries ; Smithsonian Institution of Washington, p.143-164, 1970Trabajos contenidos:
  • Berlin, B
Tema(s): Recursos en línea: Resumen: Our paper is concerned whith the question wheter names of important things last longer than names of uniportants things. More formally, if the names of items within a specific semantic domain are cercated according to their cultural utility or importance, do they display diferent rates of retention: Does the relative significance of an item to a particulare culture accelerage or retard the los of its name?
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Our paper is concerned whith the question wheter names of important things last longer than names of uniportants things. More formally, if the names of items within a specific semantic domain are cercated according to their cultural utility or importance, do they display diferent rates of retention: Does the relative significance of an item to a particulare culture accelerage or retard the los of its name?

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