INDIGENOUS-ENGLISH

Ashkii Bizaad: Verbal Morphology Loss in One Young Speaker’s Navajo

By Weisser Eric.

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Language
indigenous-english
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PDF
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489 kB (501223 bytes)
Pages
\84
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Языки индейцев;Навахо

Description

Advisers: John Haiman and Christina Esposito, Department of Linguistics, Macalester College, May 2008. — 84 с.With a rich verbal morphology and an aging population of native speakers, Navajo offers a valuable opportunity to examine language attrition in detail. Few Navajo children grow up completely unexposed to their heritage language, yet the number raised as monolingual English speakers has risen sharply in the past thirty years. This thesis compares one young speaker's production of verbs with conservative, "textbook" forms, analyzes the patterns found within this comparison, and draws on similar processes in the dying languages Dyirbal and Romansch to place these Navajo data in the larger context of language attrition.

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