Nage Lizard Classification: Free-Listing and Other Evidence for a Covert Life-Form  

Oleh:

Forth, Gregory

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 53 no. 4 (2011), page 343-364.
Fulltext: 41756860.pdf (1.99MB)

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Speakers of a Central-Malayo-Polynesian language, the Nage of Flores Island, Indonesia, name five folk generic categories of lizards. Ethnographic questioning and observed speech indicate that Nage additionally recognize a more inclusive, but unnamed, taxon glossable as ‘lizard’. Evidence for this taxon has further been generated by a modified form of free-listing. The article analyzes the results of this method, obtained from questioning seventy-two Nage speakers, and discusses the internal structure and taxonomic status of the general ‘lizard’ category. It is concluded that ‘lizard’ is a covert life-form taxon comprising distinctly prototypical and peripheral members and contrasting especially with the overt Nage life-form nipa ‘snake’.

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