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A Navajo Corpus Of Historical Narratives, Lukas Denk, Melvatha R. Chee
A Navajo Corpus Of Historical Narratives, Lukas Denk, Melvatha R. Chee
A Navajo Corpus of Historical Narratives
The Navajo Corpus of Historical Narratives is a digital compilation of morphologically annotated narratives. They were first published by Robert W. Young and William Morgan in the 1950’s in the volumes Navajo Historical Selections (1954) and The Trouble at Round Rock (1952). Nine out of 28 narratives are included in the corpus, totaling over 10,000 Navajo words. The corpus contributes to the understanding of the Navajo language by offering interlinear glosses of words, morphemes, morphs, and a free translation. These different interlinear tiers bridge the gap between the original Navajo text and the free translation provided by Young and Morgan, …