The Navajo Verb System: An Overview
- ISBN-10
- 0826321720
- ISBN-13
- 9780826321725
- Category
- Foreign Language Study
- Pages
- 329
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Author
- Robert W. Young
Description
Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.
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