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Diné Bizaad Naalkaah: Navajo Language Investigations
Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar LanguagesVolume 3 Edited by Theodore B. Fernald and Kenneth L. Hale November 2000 MITWPL MITWPL is an organization of the graduate students in linguistics at MIT. Department of Linguistics, E39-245 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 mitwpl@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
Contents
Preface Introduction Margraet Speas From Rules to Principles in the Study of Navajo Syntax Theodore Fernald, Lorene Legah, Alyse Neundorf, Ellavina Tsosie Perkins, and Paul Platero Implicature and Presupposition in Navajo Theodore Fernald, Lorene Legah, Alyse Neundorf, Ellavina Tsosie Perkins, and Paul Platero Definite and Indefinite Descriptions in Navajo Ken Hale Remarks on the Syntax of the Navajo Verb Ken Hale, Pamela Munro, and Paul Platero The Navajo Inchoative Verb Form Alyse Neundorf The Navajo Simple Passive Ellavina Tsosie Perkins Navajo H-Questions Revisited Helen Yellowman Yazzie, Regina Yazzie, Roseann Willink,Caroline Bemore, Jefferson Clauschee, and Peggy Rafelito Da: the Navajo Distributive Plural Preverb
Diné Bizaad Naalkaah is a collection of articles on Navajo morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics written by members of the Navajo Language Academy, Inc.
