Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The Language and Its Contacts with ChukchiThe study provides a description of the verbal derivational suffixation, postinflectional derivation, enclitics, and particles of the Central Siberian Yupik Eskimo language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and on the coast of Chukotka, in the Soviet Union. It also shows how these elements participate in a network of four tightly-knit grammatical susbsystems (verbal derivational suffixation; discourse enclitics; inflectional verbs moods; and adverbial and conjunctional particles borrowed from Chukchi, a neighboring Paleo-Siberian language), presents implications of the relationships among these subsystems for the theory of autolexical syntax and the theory of language change (particularly concerning contact-induced morphological and syntactic change in a polysynthetic language), and documents the history and sociolinguistics of grammatical and lexical influence of Chukchi on the Eskimo and Bering Sea area. (MSE) |
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adverbs affixes allomorphs Alutor appears autolexical Badten bases Bogoras chapter Chukchi word Chukotan clans Class-Free postbases clause clitics Co-occurrence restrictions cognate contains corresponding demonstrative adverbs derivational dialect discussed elements enclitic Eskimo languages etymologically evidence example forms Gambell ghhagh given grammar Greenlandic INFL inflectional ending intransitive Inupiaq Jacobson jargon Koryak level n+2 lexical phonology lexicalized combinations loanwords marginally productive meaning Menovshchikov MODALITY module Moll and Inénlikéj morphemes morphological naqe Nauk Naukanski NEG postbases ng)inagh ng)u node nonproductive noun occur OPT mood Participial mood particles Past Tense position classes postbase ordering postinflectional postbases PreAUX postbases preinflectional probably productive postbase PROGRESSIVE ASPECT pronouns reindeer Russian Savoonga semantic scope sentences sequence Siberian Sirenikski Soviet speakers subsection suffix syntactic syntax V-ed V-er V-ing VERB MOOD vowel vowel harmony VV postbases yagh