Cultural significance and lexical retention in Tzeltal-Tzotzil ethnobotany 

 -  Smithsonian Institution of Washington, p.143-164, 1970 .
<br/><br/> 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? 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>LÉXICO - TZELTAL - TZOLZIL