Berlin Brent. Categories of Eating in Tzeltal and Navaho

Source: International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan., 1967), — pp. 1-6
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1264023
7 с.Herbert Landar's important note on Navaho verbs of eating points up some interesting parallels in Tzeltal. I hope to outline below some of these similarities, utilizing methods analogous to those of Landar. In addition, I will attempt to show that for the Tzeltal materials, conjunctive definitions for verbs of eating are at least plausible, a solution that Landar finds inappropriate
for his Navaho data. Finally, it is suggested that more evidence concerning verbs of eating in language groups that lie between the Mayan and Southern Athabascan languages may be worthy of collection in reference to comparative problems in American Indian culture history.