The Language of the Inuit
Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic
1st Edition
Published on 28. January 2010
409 pages
978-0-7735-8162-3 (ISBN)
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A historical and anthropological overview of Inuit peoples through the study of language.
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Louis-Jacques Dorais
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Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic
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Louis-Jacques Dorais is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.Louis-Jacques Dorais is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.
Louis-Jacques Dorais is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.Louis-Jacques Dorais is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Maps and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Eskaleut Family of Languages
- 2 The Inuit Language
- 3 The Nunavik Dialect of Inuktitut
- 4 The Prehistory of the Inuit Language
- 5 Historical Sources and Linguistic Change
- 6 Semantics, Neology, and Oral Literature
- 7 Literacy and Formal Education
- 8 Language Contact and Bilingualism
- 9 The Current Status of the Inuit Language
- 10 Conclusion: Language and Identity in the Arctic
- APPENDICES
- 1 The Possessive Noun Declension (Nunavik Inuktitut)
- 2 The Grammatical Endings of Verbs (Nunavik Inuktitut)
- 3 Categories of Lexical Affixes with Nunavik Inuktitut Examples
- 4 Inuit First and Home Languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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- T
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