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Young, Robert Wendell was born on May 18, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of James M. and Nellie S. (Stevenson) Young.
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The Navajo Verb System: An Overview
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In this study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert W. Young tackled what strikes both the learner and the native speaker as an insurmountable obstacle--that Navajo appears to be a verb-centered language in which all the verbs are "irregular." In The Navajo Verb System Professor Young reveals both its structure and its inflection as entirely "regular" and based on definite rules of order. A leading authority on Navajo verb morphology, Young brought over sixty years of experience to this study. This volume, which Young called a handbook, not only details the features of verb structure and inflection but also reflects the grammatical processes that generate a wealth of concrete lexical derivatives from a relatively small number of abstract verbal roots. This volume, together with Professor Young's earlier books, is a basic reference invaluable to advanced students, linguists, and native speakers of Navajo. "This fine study presents great sweeps of Navajo verbal structure essentially at a glance. . . . The various sets of morphologically homologous verb themes are set out by Mode category and 'conjugation' so that all the elements that go to make up individual forms can be seen at a glance."--Professor Kenneth Hale, MIT
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Political History of the Navajo Tribe
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Book by Young, Robert W.
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Analytical Lexicon of Navajo
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This lexicon is designed to reflect, in detail, the morphological features of the Navajo language -- an objective that includes the identification and description of about 1130 roots that, variously combined and manipulated, underlie its extensive vocabulary. The main body of the Lexicon includes the verbs, the verb-derived nouns and adverbials, the root nouns, the numerals and the root postpositions. The borrowed nouns, particles, a full listing of adverbials, and miscellaneous lexical elements are included in the appendix.
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Robert Wendell Young
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Education
Bachelor, University Illinois, 1935. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University New Mexico, 1970.
Career
Indian language specialist Bureau Indian Affairs, Window Rock, Arizona, 1940-1951, assistant to area director, 1951-1962, area tribal operations Gallup, New Mexico, 1962-1966, Albuquerque, 1966-1971. Adjunct professor Navajo linguistics University New Mexico, 1971—2007.
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Analytical Lexicon of Navajo
(This lexicon is designed to reflect, in detail, the morph...)
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The Navajo Verb System: An Overview
( In this study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert ...)
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Political History of the Navajo Tribe
(Book by Young, Robert W.)
- By Robert W. Young - The Navajo Verb System: An Overview
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Analytical Lexicon of Navajo
Membership
Sergeant United States Marine Corps, 1944-1946. Member Society Study Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, International Journal American Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America, American Society Ethnohistory, American Geography Society.
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Married Olga L. Maloni, 1939. 1 child, Linda Sue.
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February 20, 2007 (aged 94)
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1935
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1970
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1940 - 1951
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1962 - 1966
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1966 - 1971
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1971 - 2007
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Recipient Distinguished Service award, United States Department Interior, 1969, Excellence in the Humanities award, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, 1994.Recipient Distinguished Service award, United States Department Interior, 1969, Excellence in the Humanities award, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, 1994.