By Theodore Fernald, Paul Platero
The local American language family members referred to as Athabaskan has got expanding recognition from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters during this quantity specialise in syntax and semantics, but additionally contain morphology, phonology, and ancient linguistics. integrated is a dialogue of even if faith and secular concerns may be separated in Navajo school rooms.
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Comprehension. Repetition allows semantically/lexically less dense discourse with less new information. 3. Connection. Tannen, like Halliday and Hasan 1976, refers to the "referential and tying function" (1987:583) of repetition, its ability to link utterances and show relationships between concepts or referents. She also points to the evaluative use of repetition, allowing the speaker to point to what is important by focusing attention simultaneously on both the similarities and differences between instances of a repeated utterance.
Go es hvyaan' kk'udaa bedotlaa' be'est'aanee,"ye}nee. ' Ts 'vh ceydee 'So there' yeyel setl 'odegheelo. ' Example (13), from the folktale "She's Dragging Her Bag," told by Catherine Attla, again shows the use of the classificatory verb for handling plural objects (-lo) with a de- gender prefix, referring anaphorically to a stick of skewered fat left for a child. (13) Dehoon k 'ekk 'uh beghttnk 'edaal 'oy ye tofts 'ooz laaghe, 'And he left skewered fat for him to suck on,' yetoft 'uga laaghe soo' yugh needaaneelo.