Event
Tlingit's Verbs & Consequences for Language Documentation & Learning
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 15:00to16:30
Education Building
Room 624, 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Price:
Free
Presented by James Crippen.
Tlingit is a First Nations language of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon. Traditional linguistic research has presented Tlingit鈥檚 verbs as large strings of interwoven morphology; however, this approach is complex, daunting, and difficult to internalize.
Crippen鈥檚 work counters this approach, arguing that Tlingit鈥檚 verbs are more like whole sentences, hence they can be straightforwardly analyzed with conventional syntactic theory.
