Navajo Verb Stem Position and the Bipartite Structure of the Navajo Conjunct Sector

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7913159
AutoresKen Hale (E39-320, MIT, Cambridge,Massachusetts 02139, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen32
Número4
Páginas678-693
Fecha de publicación2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/002438901753373041
OpenAlexW1985348568
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas7

The Navajo verb stem appears at the rightmost edge of the verb word. In numerous cases it forms a lexical constituent with a preverb, occurring at the leftmost edge of the surface verb word, much in the manner of Dutch and German verb-particle arrangements in verb-second finite clauses. In Navajo the initial and final positions are separated by eight morpheme order “slots” recognized in the Athabaskan literature (and described in detail for Navajo in Young and Morgan 1987). A phonological solution to this and a number of other deep-surface disparities is explored here, based on the insights of earlier works on the Navajo verb, including Speas 1984, 1990, McDonough 1996, 2000, and Rice 1989, 2000

Linguistics · Morpheme · Navajo · Sentence · Verb · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation