Time in Child Inuktitut

Time in Child Inuktitut
Author: Mary D. Swift
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-08-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110197413

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This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, its account of children's development of time reference in a system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied makes a unique contribution to the literature on the acquisition of tense and aspect. Drawing on longitudinal spontaneous speech data from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development. The comprehensive study of previously unexplored temporal phenomena and its unprecedented findings makes this book an important resource for researchers, teachers and students of child language development, especially the development of time reference. In addition, the documentation of the Inuktitut temporal system, especially as used in conversational speech, will be of interest to researchers of time reference.

The Language of the Inuit

The Language of the Inuit
Author: Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773581766

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The 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.

The Inuit World

The Inuit World
Author: Pamela Stern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000456137

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The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars, including Inuit and other Indigenous authors. The book considers regional, social, and cultural differences as well as the shared histories and common cultural practices that allow us to recognize Inuit as a single, distinct Indigenous people. The chapters demonstrate both the historical continuity of Inuit culture and the dynamic ways that Inuit people have responded to changing social, environmental, political, and economic conditions. Chapter topics include ancestral landscapes, tourism and archaeology, resource extraction and climate change, environmental activism, and women’s leadership. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in anthropology, Indigenous studies, and Arctic studies and those in related fields including geography, history, sociology, political science, and education.

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Author: Carmen Dagostino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 998
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110712741

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This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Grammatical Profiles

Grammatical Profiles
Author: Martin J. Ball
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1788924401

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This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Bangla, Croatian, Colombian Spanish, Inuktitut, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil and Turkish. Some of these languages are included as they are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, the US, Australia and elsewhere. Others are included because they are languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists. The collection will be an invaluable resource book for speech-language pathologists who wish to analyse and assess the grammatical abilities of their clients who speak one of these languages. This new collection complements previous books in this series on the same theme and together they cover 34 languages of the world.

Inuit Youth

Inuit Youth
Author: Richard Guy Condon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780813513645

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Ethnography of Inuit adolescence describing the life of young people between the ages of 9 and 20 in the community of Holman Island, NWT. Describes the day-to-day activities of Inuit youth, their time playing sports and games, attending school, engaging in sexual play, simply "hanging out" with friends and peers

Semantics in Acquisition

Semantics in Acquisition
Author: Veerle van Geenhoven
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2006-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402044852

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This volume contains writings focusing on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. These phenomena are investigated is many languages. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language
Author: Jiansheng Guo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136873686

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Inspired by the pioneering work of Dan Slobin, this volume discusses language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective, integrates language specific factors in narrative skill, covers the major theoretical issues, and explores the relationship between language and cognition.

Future Times, Future Tenses

Future Times, Future Tenses
Author: Philippe de Brabanter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199679150

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This book examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference.

Who Needs the Past?

Who Needs the Past?
Author: R. Layton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135090637

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This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.