Birds for Words in Jirel: Structure and Function in a Tibeto-Burman Folk Taxonomy  

Oleh:

Hamill, James ; Sidky, H. ; Subedi, Janardan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 44 no. 1 (Mar. 2002), page 65-84.
Fulltext: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 65-84.pdf (2.3MB)

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As a result of ethnographic field research conducted in the summer of 1999 among the Jirel, a Tibeto-Burman-speaking people in eastern Nepal, ethnosemantic data concerning the Jirel names for 134 species of birds found in their territory were collected. The semantic structure of these Jirel words for birds offers no surprises in the general folk classification literature in that they provide a clear Life Form taxon (gloss 'bird') and a reasonable set of generic taxa for the Jirel bird lexicon. The data were, however, missing any clear taxa at the Specific or Varietal levels, although Jirel speakers clearly subdivided the group. These subdivisions, as shown by the responses to sorting tasks, make reference to meanings that would be not expected in a taxonomic hierarchy model of folk taxonomies, but more closely conform to a natural core model.

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