In this study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert W. Young
tackled what strikes both the learner and the native speaker as an
insurmountable obstacleathat Navajo appears to be a verb-centered
language in which all the verbs are "irregular." In "The Navajo
Verb System" Professor Young reveals both its structure and its
inflection as entirely "regular" and based on definite rules of
order.
A leading authority on Navajo verb morphology, Young brought
over sixty years of experience to this study. This volume, which
Young called a handbook, not only details the features of verb
structure and inflection but also reflects the grammatical
processes that generate a wealth of concrete lexical derivatives
from a relatively small number of abstract verbal roots.
This volume, together with Professor Young's earlier books, is a
basic reference invaluable to advanced students, linguists, and
native speakers of Navajo.
"This fine study presents great sweeps of Navajo verbal
structure essentially at a glance. . . . The various sets of
morphologically homologous verb themes are set out by Mode category
and 'conjugation' so that all the elements that go to make up
individual forms can be seen at a glance."aProfessor Kenneth Hale,
MIT
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