The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms.
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"[A]n essential addition to the library of any Athbaskan scholar, but will also contain much of interest to syntacticians of any theoretical persuasion."--General Linguistics
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Theodore Fernald is at Swarthmore College. Paul Platero is at Prescott College, Arizona.
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discourse configurational language, plurality condition, unaccusative hypothesis, irrealis category, empty categories, language family, oblique object form, decessive enclitic, pronominal registration, monadic verbs, position class template, patientive subjects, irrealis prefix, conjunct domain, stative imperfective, thematic prefixes, verb theme categories, infl constituent, infl domain, unsaturated predicate, spatial enclitics, classificatory verbs, negative perfective, verb domain, active imperfective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Athabaskan Languages, New York, University of New Mexico Press, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Koyukon Athabaskan, University of Arizona, William Morgan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Navajo Language, Southern Athabaskan, Deg Hit'an, Lower Tanana, Jicarilla Apache, Northern Athabaskan, The Semantics of Classification, Alaska Native Language Center, Natural Language, Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, International Journal of American Linguistics, Negative Polarity Expressions, Eloise Jelinek, Catherine Attla, University of California, The Athahaskan Languages Browse Sample Pages:
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discourse configurational language, plurality condition, unaccusative hypothesis, irrealis category, empty categories, language family, oblique object form, decessive enclitic, pronominal registration, monadic verbs, position class template, patientive subjects, irrealis prefix, conjunct domain, stative imperfective, thematic prefixes, verb theme categories, infl constituent, infl domain, unsaturated predicate, spatial enclitics, classificatory verbs, negative perfective, verb domain, active imperfective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Athabaskan Languages, New York, University of New Mexico Press, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Koyukon Athabaskan, University of Arizona, William Morgan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Navajo Language, Southern Athabaskan, Deg Hit'an, Lower Tanana, Jicarilla Apache, Northern Athabaskan, The Semantics of Classification, Alaska Native Language Center, Natural Language, Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, International Journal of American Linguistics, Negative Polarity Expressions, Eloise Jelinek, Catherine Attla, University of California, The Athahaskan Languages Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Navajo Sound System (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by J.M. McDonough in Back Matter
- Arguments and Agreement (Oxford Linguistics) by Peter Ackema in Back Matter
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