- Representing at least 80,000 speakers, the Mezquital Otomi dialect of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, is the largest single subdialect of the extensive Otomi language family.
- Kenneth L. Pike, Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, 2nd ed. (The Hague, 1967).
- Robert E. Longacre, “Prolegomena to Lexical Structure,” Linguistics: An International Review, V (1964), 5–24. I am indebted to Robert Longacre for encouragement and help in the analysis of the lexical structure of the poem, as well as for suggestions in the preparation of the manuscript. I am grateful to Bruce Moore for the preparation of charts 5, 7, 9, and 10.
- Varying field structures (phonological, grammatical, or lexical) lend themselves to a corresponding variety of conceptualization and representation. Many field structures may be represented by a chart in several coordinates. Others—notably semantic hierarchies which reflect degrees of the generic and the specific—lend themselves best to tree graphs. Other conceptualizations and representations are likewise possible (e.g., circle graph for color words covering the visible spectrum). Both charts and tree graphs are used in the present discussion.
- Harold C. Conklin, “Lexicographical Treatment of Folk Taxonomies,” International Journal of American Linguistics, XXVIII (1962), 119–141.
- The phonological analysis of the poem is based upon Ethel E. Wallis, “The Word and the Phonological Hierarchy of Mezquital Otomi,” Language, XLIV (1968), 76–90. The description of the phonology is from the viewpoint of segmental and prosodic features interacting on four levels in the hierarchy: the phoneme, the syllable, the word, and the phrase.
- The reference here is to the use of rose petals (and other flowers and plants) for medicine. The use of plants in curing rites and as folk medicine is common among the Mezquital Otomi.
- The analysis of clause structure is based upon the manuscript “Mezquital Otomi Clause Structure,” by Nancy Lanier, to be published in Linguistics: An International Review. Sentence structure has not been completely analyzed, but the basic types described are in reference to a dichotomy of types involving two parameters, clausal-particle and interrogative-declarative.
- Zellig S. Harris, “Discourse Analysis,” Language, XXVIII (1952), 9–10.
- Conklin, p. 121.
- Ibid., p. 124.
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