The semantics of time : aspectual categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan / Melissa Axelrod

Axelrod, Melissa

ISBN 10: 0803210329 / ISBN 13: 9780803210325

Published by University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, 1993

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Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects : Koyukon language Aspect. Koyukon language Verb.Koyukon language Discourse analysis. American Indian languages Grammar. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 382010

Bibliographic Details

Title: The semantics of time : aspectual ...

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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