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

Axelrod, Melissa

ISBN 10: 0803210329 / ISBN 13: 9780803210325

Editore: 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. Codice articolo 382010

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Titolo: The semantics of time : aspectual ...

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

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: Rilegato

Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto:

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.