The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary

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Signed by Young on the title page. Black cloth spine over blue boards. Modest rubbing to the boards, and dust soiling to the bottom page edges. Laid in is a typed ten page stapled essay from Young, titled An Analytical Approach to the Development of Effective Teaching Materials and Methodology in an Athapaskan Language. Robert W. Young, linguist, was born on May 18, 1912 in Chicago. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois in 1935, then enrolled in anthropology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) where he began a career working with the Navajo language. He was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps during World Was II, where he earned special merit as an Indian Interpreter,and where his fluency in Navajo was utilized in the testing and selection of Navajos trained as Code Talkers. He was employed by the BIA as a Specialist in Indian Languages, and then in Navajo Tribal Relations. He taught classes in Navajo linguistics at UNM. Young and William Morgan Sr. compiled The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, published in 1980. An Analytical Lexicon of Navajo by Young, Morgan, and Sally Midgette was published in 1992. Young compiled The Navajo Yearbook which was published annually during the 1950s. In 1989, Young wrote A Political History of the Navajo Tribe. Young's, The Navajo Verb System was published in 2000. ; 1069 pages; Signed by Author.

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Título

The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary

Editor

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

Fecha de publicación

1987

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

0826310141

ISBN 13

9780826310149

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

Revised Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Dust Jacket As Issued

Firmado

Firmado por el autor

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