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

Axelrod, Melissa

 
9780803210325: The Semantics of Time: Aspectual Categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0803210329 ISBN 13: 9780803210325
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

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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.

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Melissa Axelrod currently teaches in the English department at California State University, San Bernardino.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803210329
ISBN 13 
9780803210325
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Anzahl der Seiten
200
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