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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a4fd521erlcgo.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Dena' ina Language Guide</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dena ina Language Guide"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Region"><U>Region</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction"><U>Introduction</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Syntax and Verb Morphology "><U>Syntax and Verb Morphology </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tense"><U>Tense</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chart Concept"><U>Chart Concept</U></A>   |   <B>Answer</B>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Verb Stem Dictionary"><U>Verb Stem Dictionary</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Verb Stem"><U>Verb Stem</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stem Aspect"><U>Stem Aspect</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prefix Positions"><U>Prefix Positions</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Imperfect/Perfect/Future/Progressive"><U>Imperfect/Perfect/Future/Progressive</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a3d2993.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Answer</I></div> <div> <B>neqeshnax</B> = ne+qe+esh+nax</div> <bR> <div> <B>nax-</B> definition= talk stem apect= repetitive  makes this verb talking (ongoing action)</div> <bR> <div> <B>esh-</B>  I (first person singular, the speaker) </div> <bR> <div> <B>qe-</B>    speak</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>ne-  </B>you (singular) (ne is th object section of the phrase)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> you+speak+I+talking    =  I am talking to you</div> <div> (s)               (o) (v)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Sentence Word Order and Basic Grammatical Sturcture</B></div> <div> The word order of a Dena'ina sentence consists of a subject (a noun), an object (also a noun) </div> <div> and a <U>verb </U>(sov or subject, object, verb).  In Dena'ina you would say </div> <div>       </div> <div>         `Bill home went' while in English you would say `Bill went home.'  </div> <bR> <div> Dena'ina subjects and objects are nouns that can be obtained from Jim Kari's </div> <div> "Dena'ina Noun Dictionary" (dnigi=moose, bejex=caribou etc.),  </div> <div> Like English verbs, Dena'ina verbs express either action (I <U>shot</U> the moose.) </div> <div> or some condition the subject is in (I <U>am</U> sleepy.)   </div> <bR> <div> In addition to verbal (action related) information, Dena'ina verbs may express many attributes</div> <div> that in English are part of the subject or other grammatical structures (adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, etc.) </div> <div> such as gender, whether an object is round, square, etc., who is talking and who is listening. </div> <bR> <div> Unlike nouns, verbs are structurally very complex. </div> <div> They are composed of a stem and up to 19 prefixes each of which is a bound morpheme.   </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>