A unification of Indo-European aktionsart and Navajo verb theme categories
| dc.contributor.author | Racy, Sumayya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-30T19:31:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-30T19:31:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0894-4539 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/126388 | |
| dc.description | Coyote Papers, Vol. 16 features a combined bibliography for all articles in the issue. This bibliography is available at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/125965. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I explore verb theme categories in Navajo in general, and their relation to Indo-European Aktionsart in particular. Midgette (1995) argues that we should not consider Navajo verb theme categories to be the same sort of property as Indo-European Aktionsart, both because there are more verb theme categories than there are Aktionsarts, and because Aktionsart is part of the lexical semantics of a verb, while verb theme categories are derived through morphological processes. I suggest, however, that we may in fact view these as related phenomena. In making the case for a unified treatment of Navajo verb themes and Indo-European Aktionsart, I appeal to arguments from Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993), from non-lexical Aktionsart (Harley, 1999), and from varied approaches to word building (Marantz, 2001; Arad, 2003). | |
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| dc.publisher | University of Arizona Linguistics Circle (Tucson, Arizona) | en_US |
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| dc.title | A unification of Indo-European aktionsart and Navajo verb theme categories | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Coyote Papers | en_US |
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| dc.source.journaltitle | Coyote Papers | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-22T01:11:32Z | |
| html.description.abstract | In this paper, I explore verb theme categories in Navajo in general, and their relation to Indo-European Aktionsart in particular. Midgette (1995) argues that we should not consider Navajo verb theme categories to be the same sort of property as Indo-European Aktionsart, both because there are more verb theme categories than there are Aktionsarts, and because Aktionsart is part of the lexical semantics of a verb, while verb theme categories are derived through morphological processes. I suggest, however, that we may in fact view these as related phenomena. In making the case for a unified treatment of Navajo verb themes and Indo-European Aktionsart, I appeal to arguments from Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz, 1993), from non-lexical Aktionsart (Harley, 1999), and from varied approaches to word building (Marantz, 2001; Arad, 2003). |
