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Midgette, Sarah Driver.

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The Navajo progressive in discourse context: A study in temporal semantics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Navajo progressive in discourse context: A study in temporal semantics./
Author:	Midgette, Sarah Driver.
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: A, page: 4950.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-03A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8808136

The Navajo progressive in discourse context: A study in temporal semantics.
Midgette, Sarah Driver.

The Navajo progressive in discourse context: A study in temporal semantics. - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: A, page: 4950.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1987.

Possible relationships between language systems and various types of mental processes have been suggested with regard to color; this study attempts to make a start in the domain of temporal perception, by examining the temporal "semantic representations" of the inflectional system of the Navajo verb and contrasting it at certain points with English. Aspect systems are defined as inflectional systems determining the temporal shape of a situation; these are distinguished both from Aktionsart(the temporal shape as specified lexically) and from various types of temporal anchoring systems, including tense.Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The Navajo progressive in discourse context: A study in temporal semantics.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: A, page: 4950.
500 $a Chairman: Larry Gorbet.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1987.
520 $a Possible relationships between language systems and various types of mental processes have been suggested with regard to color; this study attempts to make a start in the domain of temporal perception, by examining the temporal "semantic representations" of the inflectional system of the Navajo verb and contrasting it at certain points with English. Aspect systems are defined as inflectional systems determining the temporal shape of a situation; these are distinguished both from Aktionsart(the temporal shape as specified lexically) and from various types of temporal anchoring systems, including tense.
520 $a In the Navajo verb, Aktionsart is specified by derivational prefixes, Mode prefixes and Aspect stem; aspect as previously defined is expressed through the set of Mode stems. The different uses of the Progressive Mode forms are examined, and a network of associated meanings emerges, organized around images of temporal "boundedness" and durativity. The Progressive Mode serves to adjust the conventionalized meaning of a verb lexeme to function in certain ways in a discourse context. In conversation, where the exchanging of information is paramount, it is used to assert, for example, that a situation is either "true at the present moment", "true at any given moment", or "true for a specific interval," when modified by a durative adverbial. In a narration, only this last meaning appears. Here, Progressives are also used to background situations in favor of the "eventives" of the story line. In Navajo, they can also be eventives themselves, in a narration in which durativity is emphasized; this use does not exist in English. Tentative conclusions can be drawn as to the significance of this last type of durative marking as well as the relative importance of the aspect (as opposed to tense) system in Navajo. These facts suggest both a lack of subjective (deictic) orientation in the Navajo system by comparison with English, and a greater precision in marking the durativity of a situation. This precision leads to greater possibilities of rhythmic variation in representing a time line in a narration. These linguistic traits may prove suggestive for further research on temporal perception as a cognitive phenomenon, although many other factors need to be considered as well.
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