One of the most fundamental issues in Navajo linguistics, and more generally within Athabaskan literature, concerns the modeling of formation principles that govern verbal derivation and inflection.

This article focuses on multiple lexical entries for one Navajo classificatory verb, arguing that many of its subentries are polysemous, rather than unrelated homophones. It is suggested that the ...

Robert W. Young, 94, a linguist whose collaboration with a Navajo tribesman resulted in dictionaries of the native language, died Feb. 20 in Albuquerque. The cause of death was not reported. Young is ...

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of New Mexico, 1973. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

Navajo’s sound system can shock new learners. It uses four distinct tones—high, low, rising, and falling—to flip word meanings. For instance, tó with a high tone means “water,” while the same spelling ...

PhD, 2019, University of British Columbia, Linguistics MA, 2010, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Linguistics BA, 2009, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Interdisciplinary studies I work primarily on the ...