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The Semantics of Time: Aspectual Categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) - Hardcover
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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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"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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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0803210329
- ISBN 13 9780803210325
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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The semantics of time : aspectual categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan / Melissa Axelrod
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University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, 1993
ISBN 10: 0803210329
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