References
More information on verb structure
- Diné Bizaad Bohoo’aah I and II, third edition. 1996. Navajo Preparatory School, Farmington, New Mexico.
- Faltz, Leonard M. 1998. The Navajo Verb. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.
- Hoijer, Harry. 1945. "The Apachean verb I: verb structure and pronominal prefixes," International Journal of American Linguistics 11:123-125.
- Hoijer, Harry. 1945. "The Apachean verb II," International Journal of American Linguistics 11:193-204.
- Hoijer, Harry. 1946. "The Apachean verb III," International Journal of American Linguistics 12:51-60.
- Hoijer, Harry. 1948. "The Apachean verb IV," International Journal of American Linguistics 14:247-260.
- Hoijer, Harry. 1949. "The Apachean verb V," International Journal of American Linguistics 15:12-23.
- Kari, James. 1976. Navajo Verb Prefix Phonology. New York: Garland Publishing.
- McDonough, Joyce. 1990. Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Navajo Verbs. Doctoral dissertation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- McDonough, Joyce. 2003. The Navajo Sound System. Kluwer Academic Press. Dordrecht.
- Young, Robert W. 2000. The Navajo Verb System: an Overview. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.
- Young, Robert W. and William Morgan, Sr. 1987. The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Revision of Young and Morgan (1984).
- Young, Robert W., Morgan, William Sr. and Sally Midgette. 1992. Analytical Lexicon of Navajo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
More information on tense and aspect in Navajo
- Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth. future. ...
- Midgette, Sally. 1995. The Navajo Progressive in Discourse: A Study in Temporal Semantics. New York: Peter Lang.
- Midgette, Sally. 1996. "Lexical Aspect in Navajo: the Telic Property," in Jelinek et al. 1996). pp. 305-330.
- Jelinek, Eloise, Midgette, Sally, Rice, Keren, and Leslie Saxon (eds.). 1996. Athabaskan Language Studies: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Young. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Smith, Carlota. 1996. "Aspectual Categories of Navajo," International Journal of American Linguistics 62.2.227-263.
- Smith, Carlota and Ellavina Perkins. 2006. “Temporal Inference of Zero-marked Clauses in Navajo.” The Proceedings of SULA3 (Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas 3). University of Massachusetts Working Papers in Linguistics. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Smith, Carlota S., Ellavina T. Perkins and Theodore B. Fernald. 2007. “Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation.” International Journal of American Linguistics. 73:40-71.
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