The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the ArcticThe culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers. |
Contents
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2 The Inuit Language | 27 |
3 The Nunavik Dialect of Inuktitut | 66 |
4 The Prehistory of the Inuit Language | 88 |
5 Historical Sources and Linguistic Change | 106 |
6 Semantics Neology and Oral Literature | 135 |
7 Literacy and Formal Education | 172 |
8 Language Contact and Bilingualism | 215 |
9 The Current Status of the Inuit Language | 235 |
Language and Identity in the Arctic | 261 |
APPENDICES | 279 |
Notes | 297 |
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Other editions - View all
Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic Louis-Jacques Dorais Limited preview - 2010 |
The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic Louis-Jacques Dorais No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
aboriginal language Aivilik Alaska Alaskan Inupiaq Alutiiq ancestors basic Bering Strait bilC bilingual Canada Canadian Arctic Canadian Inuit Central Alaskan Yup’ik Central Siberian Yupik century chapter Chukotka clusters coast consonant Danish Dorais East Greenlandic Eastern Canadian Eastern Canadian Inuktitut endings English Eskaleut languages Eskimo etymological Europeans example express Fortescue French gemination grammatical groups guage he/she him/her identity Igloolik instance Inuinnaqtun Inuit dialects Inuit language Inuk Inuktun Inupiaq Inuvialuit Iqaluit Island Itivimiut Kalaallisut Kivalliq Labrador lexemes lexical affixes lexicon linguistic Malimiutun means missionaries modalis Moravian morphemes mother tongue native Natsilingmiutut North Baffin North Slope northern noun Nunatsiavut Nunavik Nunavut orthography person phonemic phonological plural population present-day Proto-Eskimo Quebec Qumaq region Russian second language semantic Siglitun Sirenikski social South speak speakers speech forms spoken subdialect syllabic Tarramiut territory Thule tion traditional translated Unangax Uummarmiutun uvuC uvular velC verbs vowel West western words Yupiget Yupiit Yupik languages