Synopses & Reviews
This book offers a rich and theoretically informed survey of verb structure in Athapaskan languages.
Synopsis
The complex morphology of Athapaskan languages is of great linguistic interest but still sparsely documented. This insightful book offers a rich typological survey of morpheme ordering in Athapaskan verbs and demonstrates the relevance of semantics for verb structure. It will be welcomed by Athapaskanists, typologists, historical and theoretical linguists alike.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: beginning the journey; Part I. First Steps: 2. Introducing the problem; 3. Global uniformity and local variability: a possible account; Part II. The Lexical Terms: 4. First stop: introducing the lexical items; 5. A brief side trip: the position of the verb stem; 6. Ordering of the lexical items; 7. Voice/valence; 8. Summary: lexical items; Part III. The Functional Items: 9. An introduction to the functional elements; 10. Pronominals; 11. The aspect system; 12. Qualifiers and their ordering; 13. On the ordering of functional items; Part IV. A View of the Lexicon: 14. The scopal hypothesis and simplifying the lexicon; 15. Evidence from the lexicon; Part V. The End of the Journey: 16. Looking back, looking ahead; Part VI. Appendices: Appendix 1. Templates and affix ordering; Appendix 2. The languages; Appendix 3. Summary of constraints and language differences; Notes; References; Indexes.