The semantics of time
aspectual categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan
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Author
Publication
1993 - University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lincoln, Nebraska
Language
English
Word Count
49,750 words, Guess
Page Count
199 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1737578M
- ISBN-100803210329
- OCLC Control Number27106893
- OCLC Control Numbersemanticsoftimea0000axel
- Library of Congress Control Number92042719
and 2 more
- Goodreads3450894
- LibraryThing2720624
Classifications
- DDC497/.2
- LCCPM1594 .A94 1993
Description
"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."--Pub. desc.
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Series Statement
- Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
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