Case and Context in Inuktitut (Eskimo)Examines the use of three simple sentence types with both subject and object in the Inuktitut language, based on field work in Igloolik. |
Contents
PHONOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL BACKGROUND TO THE NORTH BAFFIN | 11 |
ERGATIVITY A THREEPRONGED PROBLEM | 29 |
Summary of Chapter Two | 36 |
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A/the accusative clause accusative construction agent and patient agnate Alariaq anaana:ma antipassive rule argument arnaq Baffin Island Bergsland choice chômeur clause type coreference coreference dimension coreferential deleted derivation approach describes dialect direct object Dyirbal Egede elements English ergative clause ergative construction ergative languages ergative-possessive problem ergator Eskimo example expressed fact given given-new glosses grammatical relation Igloolik input structure interpretation intransitive clause inuk kernel Kleinschmidt linguistic logical accent meaning Menovščikov morpheme morphological neutral nominalist nominative nouns Paillet participle passive clause passive rule passive suffix person suffix possessive construction possessor possessum Prague School predication structure previous reference realized recoverable relational grammar Relational Hierarchy relationalists relative Reranking Law rheme semantic semantic roles sentence stratificational stratificational linguistics suffix surface structure syntactic Thalbitzer theme and rheme theme-rheme theory trans-sentential approach transformational grammar transitive two-argument clause two-place verb underlying string underlying structure Woodbury words