First Advisor
Steve L. Thorne
Date of Award
8-6-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Applied Linguistics and University Honors
Department
Applied Linguistics
Language
English
Subjects
Koyukon language -- Verb, Comparative and general grammar -- Verb, Athapascan languages -- Verb
DOI
10.15760/honors.947
Abstract
The Athabaskan languages of western North America are notorious for exhibiting highly complex verbal morphology. Koyukon, a language spoken along the Yukon River in Alaska, and a member of the Northern branch of the Athabaskan family, is one such example. This overview seeks to introduce students and language practitioners to the theoretical fundamentals of Koyukon's verbal morphology, including the parts that constitute the discontinuous verbal base, or 'verb theme,' as well as the inflectional and derivational processes under which a verb theme may go in order to render morphologically complex surface forms with richly engineered meaning. These principles are amply exemplified with utterances from the Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary (Jetté et al., 2000).
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33490
Recommended Citation
Vincent, Jonathan K., "An Introductory Overview of the Koyukon (Athabaskan) Verb" (2020). University Honors Theses. Paper 925.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.947
Comments
An undergraduate honors thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in University Honors and Applied Linguistics and German.