THE RETENTION OF FOLK LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS AND THE TI'CIR CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY NACIREMAN

Certain structural features of spoken Nacireman are examined objectively & from the point of view of native Nacireman folk linguistics. Discrepancies on the phonological, morphological & syntactic levels between the traditional folk analysis & that of modern structural linguistics are accounted for in terms of the cognitive structure & ideological orientation of the ti'cir caste which plays a critical role in the enculturation of Nacireman children & in terms of the internal org & external relationships of the native academic instit's, whose function in Nacireman society can be specified only after intensive deep-structure analysis. Modified HA.