On a bipartite model of the Athabaskan verb

“All the Carrier verbs are made up of at least two parts, the first of which denotes the tense and person, while the second, namely the ending or stem, contains the main signification of the word.” A.G. Morice (1932), The Carrier Language “.the Na-Dene languages are not one-third as synthetic as the...

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Main Author: Joyce Mcdonough
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: University Press
Subjects:
tlingit
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.612.4011
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Summary:“All the Carrier verbs are made up of at least two parts, the first of which denotes the tense and person, while the second, namely the ending or stem, contains the main signification of the word.” A.G. Morice (1932), The Carrier Language “.the Na-Dene languages are not one-third as synthetic as they look.Haida in particular, I find, is extremely analytic.What Swanton calls affixes are all independent stems entering into composition, or even little verbs.It all crumbles into pieces at the least touch. I think the same will prove to be true of Athabaskan-Tlingit.” Edward Sapir (1921) excerpt from a letter to A. L. Kroeber A concise and motivated model of verbal morphology is essential to any

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