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Up, down, and across the Land: Landscape Terms, Place Names, and Spatial Language in Tzeltal
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Brown, Penelope – Language Sciences, 2008
The Tzeltal language is spoken in a mountainous region of southern Mexico by some 280,000 Mayan corn farmers. This paper focuses on landscape and place vocabulary in the Tzeltal municipio of Tenejapa, where speakers use an absolute system of spatial reckoning based on the overall uphill (southward)/downhill (northward) slope of the land. The paper…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Vocabulary
Complex Landscape Terms in Seri
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O'Meara, Carolyn; Bohnemeyer, Jurgen – Language Sciences, 2008
The nominal lexicon of Seri is characterized by a prevalence of analytical descriptive terms. We explore the consequences of this typological trait in the landscape domain. The complex landscape terms of Seri classify geographic entities in terms of their material make-up and spatial properties such as shape, orientation, and merological…
Descriptors: Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Minorities, Dictionaries, Nouns