The Semantics of Time: Aspectual Categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) - Hardcover

Axelrod, Melissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803210329 ISBN 13: 9780803210325

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

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Book by Axelrod Melissa

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"This work offers a significant contribution to both Athabaskan studies and to those with a broader interest. The author has tackled a very important and difficult subject and the work contains some very important material."-Chad L. Thompson, author of The Hupa Dictionary Project -- Chad L. Thompson "This book is likely to be seen as a major contribution to the semantics and morphology of the verb in a Native American language."-Paul J. Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University -- Paul J. Hopper

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Koyukon is an Athabaskan language spoken along the Yukon and Koyukuk rivers in Alaska. Even among the Athabaskan languages, which are noted for the richness of their aspectual inventories and the diversity of expression possible from these inventories, Koyukon has the most elaborate and richly varied possibilities of morphologically marked derivational aspect. (Aspect is the nature of the action of a verb as to its beginning, duration, completion, or repetition and without referenced to its position in time, and the set of inflected verb forms that indicate aspect). The work consists of three parts: an examination of the aspectual system, which involved sorting out a complex network of four modes, fifteen aspects, four superaspects, and some 300 aspect-dependent derivational prefix strings; an analysis of the organization of verb-theme categories, which are directly linked to aspectual categories; and an assessment of the function of the aspectual system as a whole.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803210329
• ISBN 13: 9780803210325
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200