Pattern of Primary Personal Reference in a Tzeltal Community

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Duane G. Metzger
Gerald E. Williams

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A set of speeh events is isolated from a set of a Tzetzal conventional texts. These speech events share the common characteristic of referring to one or more persons other than the speajer or the listener(s) participating in the conversation.

A partial grammatical description of these speech events is developed, incluiding a syntax stated in terms of a set of rules for the analysis of non.minimal instances of reference.

A semantic analysis phrased in terms of differentiating attributes is offered which relates directly to the morphological and syntactic propierties of the units established, as well as to specifiable elicting procedures regularly used by anthropologist in establishing dimensions of contrats among socially recognized role categories. In the process there emerges a forma delimitation of Aguatemaco Tzetzal kinship terminology a delimitation which is prior to and not dependant upon semantic criteria.

Some “performance correlates” are described which can be associated whit the differential presence or absence of some of established attributes and hence whit referential usage.

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Metzger, D. G., & Williams, G. E. (2012). Pattern of Primary Personal Reference in a Tzeltal Community. Estudios De Cultura Maya, 6. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.1967.6.297
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Duane G. Metzger

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Chicago. Ha sido professor de antropología en Stanford University Of Illinois. Trabajos de campo entre los tzetzales de Chiapas, y en Yucatán. Fue miembro, el año pasado, del Center fro Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, y debe pasar el año próximo, como profesor auxiliar a la División de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de California. Principales publicaciones (en colaboración con Gerald E. Williams):Tenejapa Medicine I: The Curer; Tenejapa Medicine II: Sources of Illness Procedures in the Study of Native Categories: Tzetzal Firewood.

Gerald E. Williams

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Chicago. Ha realizado trabajos de campo en Sumatra, Java, y Chiapas. Principales publicaciones (en colaboración con Duane G. Metzger): Tenejapa Medicine I: The Curer; Tenejapa Medicine II: Sources of Illness Procedures in the Study of Native Categories: Tzetzal Firewood.