Transforming the Images
Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo)
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2011
XI, 309 pages
978-3-11-080892-6 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The pattern of investigation
- 1.1. Why, and for what purpose, would one investigate a language like Inuktitut
- 1.2. So what is the topic of this investigation?
- 2. First acquaintance with Inuktitut: groundwork for meeting the problem
- 2.1. Genetic affiliations
- 2.2. History of research
- 2.3. Orthography and standard
- 3. A first grammar
- 3.1. Preliminary considerations
- 3.2. A traditional description of Inuktitut
- 4. Historiography
- 4.1. A look at the history of the discipline
- 4.2. Samuel Kleinschmidt's grammar
- 4.3. Nominality
- 5. Ergativity
- 5.1. Preliminaries
- 5.2. The dilemma of subject and object
- 5.3. Ergativity
- 5.4. Descriptive levels of sentence structure
- 6. Transitivity
- 6.1. Transitivity
- 6.2. Transitivity in verbal complexes
- 6.3. Transitivity in sentences
- 6.4. Word classes
- 6.5. Properties of predicative expressions
- 7. Ergativity in Inuktitut
- 7.0. Outline of the investigation
- 7.1. Ergativity in Inuktitut
- 7.2. Subjects in Inuktitut
- 7.3. Objects in Inuktitut
- 8. Transforming the images
- 8.1. Conclusion
- 8.2. Parva grammatica
- Notes
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
